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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9711043" data-attributes="member: 78087">Heyer is an interesting contrast to Austen because she’s basically writing Georgian romantic fiction more than a century after the fact with impeccable research but an oddly more old-fashioned romantic approach. Her stuff wouldn’t exist without Austen but it’s like she wanted to write those stories with more romance and less clear-sighted cynicism.That said, Austen rarely avoids romance, especially in the conclusion (“and they all married happily ever after”) so there’s not much in it. Her approach is more “patriarchy sucks (1810 edition) but I still want to end up in a happy marriage with a rich guy”.I actually prefer Heyer’s murder mysteries, which are also pretty traditional but more fun to read, at least for me.(Georgette Heyer is notable for having done a metric ton of social research for her Regency books which are the foundation of almost every modern book set there since, especially by someone like Barbara Cartland who stole all her research and was a pretty lazy writer.)</blockquote>