Her other historical novels were OK, but they lagged behind her best work in the period in which she seemed most at home, and by the time she wrote My Lord John, the heart had gone right out of her.
This is really funny to me because I'm pretty sure she thought of those as her best work! At least, there is a foreword in...I think it's "Lord John" but it might be "Simon the Coldheart" in which her husband says she liked those best and reviles the "brutal British tax system" which forced her to keep churning out the romances! Of course, just because her husband said it doesn't make it true, but just in case I would like to extend a warm thank you to the British tax system.
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Re: I love Heyer's Regency and 18th-century novels so much
Date: 2009-05-14 09:45 pm (UTC)This is really funny to me because I'm pretty sure she thought of those as her best work! At least, there is a foreword in...I think it's "Lord John" but it might be "Simon the Coldheart" in which her husband says she liked those best and reviles the "brutal British tax system" which forced her to keep churning out the romances! Of course, just because her husband said it doesn't make it true, but just in case I would like to extend a warm thank you to the British tax system.