Sophie, een liefde zonder angst by Georgette Heyer

The first, Regency Buck, became a best-seller when it was published in 1935, and featured a wealthy heiress from the English countryside, whose sense of independence causes her to clash with London's social norms, but eventually conform to them – qualities seen in many other Heyer heroines. Heyer's fame stemmed mainly from her Regency novels, which made her a household name.

The Black Moth was popular with readers and Heyer continued to publish more Georgian novels until the release of Faro's Daughter in 1941. The Georgian novel, which featured an earl who turns to outlawry in the 18th century, set the template for many of her future stories – romance, a historical setting, characters from the nobility, and a 'saturnine' male lead. īorn in Wimbledon, London, the nineteen-year-old Heyer published her first novel, The Black Moth, in 1921 from a story she had written for her hemophiliac younger brother Boris. A best-selling author, Heyer's writing career saw her produce works from a variety of genres in total she published 32 novels in the romance genre, 6 historical novels, 4 contemporary novels, and 12 in the detective fiction genre. But she did try to cancel Goodreads reviewers.įor more information about what happened, read the top three Goodreads reviews.Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) was an English author particularly known for her historical romance novels set in the Regency and Georgian eras.

It's the opposite of the truth: the book has never not been available (though she has a new publisher) and she has more publicity and name recognition than ever. She has had more than six months of almost totally sympathetic and inaccurate articles in high profile media outlets, portraying her and this particular book, as victims of cancel culture. Since then, the origin has largely been forgotten, and the author has removed all her comments on Goodreads and many of her tweets. The author had already threatened to contact one reviewer's employer about it, because the reviewer was also a teacher. People believed her lies and tried to get the reviews cancelled. She included a screenshot of one, claiming what she called racist quotes were made up - they weren't. She did this for many weeks in spring 2021, and when that failed, she went to Twitter (where she has a large following for her pupils' poetry) and asked people to flag Goodreads reviews. Reviews that the wider world hadn't noticed and probably never would. There was no threat of any cancellation until the author started trying to get negative reviews here, on Goodreads, taken down. Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me does not belong on any 'cancel culture' list, least of all on on Goodreads.

Sophie, een liefde zonder angst by Georgette Heyer