(Dis)Honourable Escapes: Reassessing Sexuality in Georgette Heyer’s Historical Romances

Tandon, Lasya

(Dis)Honourable Escapes: Reassessing Sexuality in Georgette Heyer’s Historical Romances

Published July 6, 2026

Introduction In her 1970 review of Charity Girl for The Times, Marganhita Laski derisively wrote, “even if Miss Heyer’s heroines lifted their worked muslin skirts,…

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Telling Gaps and Domestic Tyranny: Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances

Published May 18, 2022

The significance of heterosexual romance as Georgette Heyer writes it characteristically unfolds within a familial context, emphasizing the growing cultural investment in the family as…

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14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students

Published August 29, 2015

[End Page 1] In February 2012, after finishing my Magister thesis on the popular Regency romance and getting my degree,[1] I was offered the opportunity…

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Pedagogy Report: Embedding Popular Romance Studies in Undergraduate English Units: Teaching Georgette Heyer’s Sylvester

Published March 31, 2011

Introduction This paper outlines one model for introducing popular romance studies to undergraduate English programs: teaching romance texts and topics alongside canonical and contemporary literary…

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