She'd researched Regency slang so obsessively that her novels became historical dictionaries in disguise. Georgette Heyer died today, leaving behind 57 books she'd written in longhand—historical romances so meticulously accurate that academics still cite them. She refused all interviews for fifty years. Hated publicity. Never appeared on television. And yet she'd invented an entire genre, creating the template every modern romance novel still follows: the witty heroine, the arrogant hero, the happily-ever-after wrapped in impeccable period detail. Her readers knew her through her footnotes, not her face.
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