Página inicialGruposDiscussãoMaisZeitgeist
Pesquise No Site
Este site usa cookies para fornecer nossos serviços, melhorar o desempenho, para análises e (se não estiver conectado) para publicidade. Ao usar o LibraryThing, você reconhece que leu e entendeu nossos Termos de Serviço e Política de Privacidade . Seu uso do site e dos serviços está sujeito a essas políticas e termos.

Resultados do Google Livros

Clique em uma foto para ir ao Google Livros

Carregando...

The Private World of Georgette Heyer (1984)

de Jane Aiken Hodge

Outros autores: Veja a seção outros autores.

MembrosResenhasPopularidadeAvaliação médiaMenções
3821566,230 (4.01)56
As a bestselling phenomenon & queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists. With this biography we catch a glimpse into Georgette Heyer's world, & that of her most memorable characters.
Carregando...

Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro.

Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.

» Veja também 56 menções

Mostrando 1-5 de 15 (seguinte | mostrar todas)
The classic biography of Georgette Heyer is, finally, back in print and will delight Heyer fans everywhere. She wrote more than fifty novels, yet her private life was inaccessible to any but her nearest friends and relatives.
Lavishly illustrated, and with extracts from her correspondence and references to her work, The Private World reveals a formidable and energetic woman with an impeccable sense of style and above all, a love for all things Regency. ( )
  Karen74Leigh | Feb 18, 2023 |
hardback
  SueJBeard | Feb 14, 2023 |
This readable biography was a pleasant surprise. Hodge created an accurate and sympathetic view of the historical fiction written over the decades by Georgette Heyer. The prose never descended into maudlin praise or esoteric speculation about the very private person that was ‘Miss Heyer’. Remarks and quotes throughout about the development of most of her novels added an excellent insight into Heyer’s way of writing. At one point, Hodge details very succinctly that people who sneer at Heyer's work clearly haven't read any. I loved her passages on this topic because it shows how thoroughly the inner workings of Heyer's writing was analyzed.

It was especially astonishing to read about her difficulties with the British income tax assessments. One now can understand why many citizens became British ex-pats in order to survive. It was also very refreshing to have Heyer’s work revealed as highly capable and well-researched narratives that men apparently read as well as women. It was increasingly evident as Heyer’s research came to light that she was a notable expert in military strategy of the Napoleanic and Peninsular war histories. Highly recommended biography. ( )
  SandyAMcPherson | Feb 28, 2019 |
Georgette Heyer was a wonderful writer, but she was also an intensely private person, who loathed publicity and refused over and over to be interviewed. That makes it tough to write a biography. Ms. Hodge, however, is up to the challenge, providing a detailed history of Heyer's life and a convincing portrait of her character. I especially enjoyed the degree to which Ms. Hodge brought Heyer's books into the story, setting each one in the context of Heyer's life when it was written, her relationships with her publishers, and her overall body of work. Heyer comes across as a less forbidding personage than she does in Jennifer Kloester's biography. For that reason I prefer Ms. Hodge's book, but both of them are excellent and carefully researched biographies. ( )
  annbury | Jul 10, 2017 |
An in-depth look at the life of Georgette Heyer, writer of a prodigious number of historical romances. Heyer was a well-read, stylish, very private woman who enjoyed a small but close circle of friends and family and researched her books meticulously. ( )
  wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 |
Mostrando 1-5 de 15 (seguinte | mostrar todas)
Georgette Heyer is remembered chiefly as a writer of detective stories and popular historical novels, notably for her Regency romances. These, with titles such as The convenient marriage, Regency buck, and The Spanish bride, pretty, pouting heroines and dashing rakes of heroes, are perhaps not regarded very seriously as examples of their genre; so it may come as a surprise to learn from Jane Aiken Hodge's biography that Heyer's historical research and recording were scrupulous. When Heyer planned a historical biography of John, Duke of Bedford, 'She began to collect information ... for the years of John's life, 1389 to 1435. Three card indexes cover this period, itemized by year, month and day', as well as 'a card index of biographies, running from the dukes of Alencon to Richard, Duke of York', and files 'thick with information of every kind'. Clearly, the instincts of an indexer lay within the writer of romances. We may recognize too her glee in discovering errors when proof-reading: 'I had given the same name to Mrs Underhill's housekeeper and Sir Waldo's valet ... I went through the proofs of Carola Oman's new book and don't seem to have missed a thing'. Indeed, for her friend Carola Oman, a more serious historical writer, Georgette Heyer compiled a back-of-the-book index: to Oman's Britain against Napoleon.
 

» Adicionar outros autores (5 possíveis)

Nome do autorFunçãoTipo de autorObra?Status
Jane Aiken Hodgeautor principaltodas as ediçõescalculado
Nash, PhyllidaNarradorautor secundárioalgumas ediçõesconfirmado
Você deve entrar para editar os dados de Conhecimento Comum.
Para mais ajuda veja a página de ajuda do Conhecimento Compartilhado.
Título canônico
Título original
Títulos alternativos
Data da publicação original
Pessoas/Personagens
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Lugares importantes
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Eventos importantes
Filmes relacionados
Epígrafe
Dedicatória
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To Georgette Heyer
alias Mrs Ronald Rougier
Primeiras palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Georgette Heyer was born on 16 August 1902, in the prosperous London suburb of Wimbledon.
Citações
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
She was beginning to collect her reference library and to accumulate research material ... Illustrations from magazine articles were lovingly clipped and filed ... Useful material from books was carefully traced or copied ... meticulous files of notes ... growing fast. She could turn to her indexed vocabulary books and find `rumbo' for Newgate when she wanted to introduce thieves' cant ... notes meticulously cross-referred.
Últimas palavras
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Aviso de desambiguação
Editores da Publicação
Autores Resenhistas (normalmente na contracapa do livro)
Idioma original
CDD/MDS canônico
LCC Canônico

Referências a esta obra em recursos externos.

Wikipédia em inglês (5)

As a bestselling phenomenon & queen of the Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer is one of the most beloved historical novelists. With this biography we catch a glimpse into Georgette Heyer's world, & that of her most memorable characters.

Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas.

Descrição do livro
Resumo em haiku

Current Discussions

Nenhum(a)

Capas populares

Links rápidos

Avaliação

Média: (4.01)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2 1
2.5 1
3 15
3.5 8
4 22
4.5 6
5 23

É você?

Torne-se um autor do LibraryThing.

 

Sobre | Contato | LibraryThing.com | Privacidade/Termos | Ajuda/Perguntas Frequentes | Blog | Loja | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliotecas Históricas | Os primeiros revisores | Conhecimento Comum | 203,251,523 livros! | Barra superior: Sempre visível