With the added pressure of financially supporting her widowed mother
and two younger brothers, GH
published a historical romance entitled Simon the Coldheart, dedicated to her late father
.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Georgette Heyer
Sylvia (Watkins) Heyer
, GH
's mother, came from a large family who owned tugboats. She married on 10 August 1901 when she was twenty-five years old, giving up a potential career in music (she...
