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Nerdy Reviews interviewed me. Some questions I often get asked, others, a first.

And here, silver fork novels and the beginning of romance, especially the tension between what readers wanted and reality.

Three requests will usually do it, but since the beginning of the year I've had like over a dozen queries boiling down to, "Where is that thing you wrote about the difference between Austen and Heyer?" so here it is in reprise.

Over at Tor.com today, Jo Walton talks about why she likes Georgette Heyer. Interesting discussion and comments.

Though I've rambled about Heyer and silver fork novels I still keep trying to figure out why Heyer's more upbeat romances work as well as they do. (The serious ones are really, really awful ( Read more... )

A discussion the other day led to this riff about the differences between the two ( Read more... )

The silver fork novel has stayed in popularity for nearly two hundred years. Many writers of my generation who penned them in homage to Georgette Heyer are bringing them back into print.

Such as Dear Jenny by Madeleine Robins, whose alternate Regency era mysteries about Miss Sarah Tolerance I love to pieces. You can find Petty Treason here.

Today's post at BVC was sparked by a recent reread of 26-year-old Fanny Burney's Evelina, which rocketed to best-sellerdom within weeks after it came out late in 1778 ( Read more... )

Today's riff is on Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and the Silver Fork novels.

Tomorrow's BVC's riff will be about Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, and the Silver Fork Novels. (link in the morning, when it goes live ( Read more... )

There were two things going on with silver fork novels: the unrepentant glorying in the wealth and exclusiveness of rank, and the stories of marriages. They were not always romantic by today's standards. Pelham, the granddaddy of them all (especially the 1828 edition, before Bulwer hyphenated his name and toned down his cheerfully impudent ( Read more... )