Heyer, Georgette (1902–1974)

English novelist. She wrote her first historical novel, The Black Moth in 1921, to amuse a sick brother. Her best, such as These Old Shades (1926) and Regency Buck (1935), are Regency romances based on considerable research, a fictional form she can be said to have invented.

Heyer was born in Wimbledon, Surrey. An Infamous Army (1937) and The Spanish Bride (1940) are Regency novels with backgrounds of military history.