Finally! I knew J.K. Rowling must have read Heyer and
here's proof:
My mother had everything Georgette Heyer ever wrote, so I whipped through those, too, when I was a pre-teen, and I FINALLY found a plain heroine there, too (Phoebe, in ‘Sylvester’, who also - hooray! - happened to be a writer).
Or has she said this before, and I'm forgetting?
Also, how much do I love
this story?