Best of the Blog: The Romance of the Regency

Editor’s Note: Sherwood Smith’s posts always draw a lot of conversation in the comment section, but this on regency novels was particularly popular. It first appeared in 2010.

I discovered Georgette Heyer in high school, after reading an entire issue of the fanzine Niekas devoted to it, somewhere around 1967-8. At that time I hadn’t yet read Jane Austen, though I’d loved historical novels ever since I checked out Mara, Daughter of the Nile in grade school. My favorite by ninth grade was Annema...