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
Georgette's father, George Heyer
, was born in 1869 as the son of an immigrant from Russia. He attended King's College School
in London (first opened in the basement of King's College proper) and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Literary responses
Georgette Heyer
George Heyer
read this novel in manuscript before his death and enthusiastically declared it his favourite among his daughter's novels to date.
Hodge, Jane Aiken. The Private World of Georgette Heyer. Bodley Head, 1984.
