![]() ![]() ![]() Other hits include Friday’s Child (1944), The Grand Sophy (1950) and Frederica (1965). Devil’s Cub, published in 1932, was one of her bestselling titles, featuring Mary Challoner, who sets out to impersonate her sister when she discovers the Marquis of Vidal’s fiendish plan to abduct her. Publishing her first novel, historical romance The Black Moth, at the age of 17, Heyer would go on to release 55 more, the majority set in the Regency period and featuring feisty, beautiful heroines on a bumpy path to true love. “Though often self-deprecating, Georgette Heyer actually loved writing and would have been thrilled at being accorded the honour of a blue plaque,” said Kloester. Heyer’s biographer Jennifer Kloester, who proposed the blue plaque, said that the author “created a genre” with her Regency novels, and “continues to be read today because she was such a perceptive and witty writer”. ![]() The plaque is at 103 Woodside in Wimbledon, the semi-detached house where Heyer lived for the first four years of her life. ![]() Photograph: Courtesy of the Georgette Heyer Estate Georgette Heyer: ‘continues to be read today because she was such a perceptive and witty writer’. ![]()
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