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Regency Buck is an entertaining story which gives readers a vivid introduction to upper-class Regency London and Brighton in 18 and has several clever portraits of historical personages including Beau Brummell, Lord Alvanley, the Prince Regent, and his brothers, the Royal Dukes. It was ‘a lovely book’ in some ways, although she did not achieve the subtle distillation of historical detail into the story or create one of her famous imbroglio endings as she would in later novels. Moore, letter, 18 March 1934Īlthough the cover stayed the same for many years, the pugilist on the spine only appeared on the 1935 first edition Research riches It ought to be a lovely book.’ Georgette Heyer to L.P. There will also be a bit of cocking, possibly a meeting of the Beefsteaks, certainly a coaching race to Brighton & a street mill.

O.K.? I’ve read Annals of the Ring & Pugilistica – & I know a bit about it now, I can tell you. ‘I’m going to open Regency Buck with a Prize Fight – probably Cribb’s second battle with Molyneux, at Thistleton Gap. Georgette immersed herself in the material before writing confidently to her agent: Now its wide-ranging collection yielded a rich crop of Regency-related subjects. She had been a member of the privaate subscription library in St James’s Square since 1925 and had often had parcels of books sent to her when she was living overseas. Living in Sussex meant she was in easy reach of London by train and Georgette would sometimes visit the city to have lunch with her agent, shop or visit the London Library.

Georgette was enthusiastic about the book for she had found a wealth of inspiring new material relating to the period and was reading widely. While it would be another ten years before she focussed solely on writing books set in the period – and Heyer did not know it at the time of writing Regency Buck – the novel would mark the beginning of a new genre of historical fiction. Although it lasted only nine years, from 1811 to 1820, the Regency was a dynamic and hugely influential period in British history. It would also be her first book set in the period of history known as the English Regency – the era when King George III had been declared mad and his son, George, Prince of Wales, would rule as Regent in his father’s stead.

In March 1934 Georgette Heyer began what would become her nineteenth novel. The original 1935 Heinemann dustjacket for Regency Buck “It ought to be a lovely book”