The Grand Sophy is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. It was first published in 1950 by Heinemann in the UK and Putnam in the U.S. Sales were...
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Georgette Heyer (category Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age)
Manipulations: The Grand Sophy", Tor.com, retrieved 19 June 2023 Kesavan, Mukul (6 March 2005), "LESS THAN GOLD - Re-reading The Grand Sophy", The Telegraph...
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Sophy is an alternate spelling of the female given name Sophie, from the name Sophia, meaning "wise". Sophy A. Christensen (1867–1955), Danish master...
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the early attestments to this. European painting of Shah Ismail I with the title Sophy European engraving of Shah Abbas II with the title Grand Sophy...
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List of works by Georgette Heyer (redirect from Instead of the Thorn)
OCLC 560209264. Arabella. WorldCat. OCLC 4910218. The Grand Sophy. WorldCat. OCLC 900093790. "The Quiet Gentleman". British Library Catalogue. London:...
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Sufism Reoriented. p. 159. ISBN 978-1-880619-09-4. Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy (London 1974) p. 101. Gouda, Gururaj Ganapati; D’Mello, Laveena (2021-02-22)...
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C. Hoare & Co (category Banks based in the City of London)
Georgette Heyer's 1965 Regency Romance novel The Grand Sophy, Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy, father of the heroine Sophy, banked with Hoare's. "My bankers are Hoares"...
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and trustee the Bagshot family: Mrs Jane Bagshot, Mr Humphrey Bagshot and their children, Edwin, Cassandra (Cassy), Eudora & Sophronia (Sophy); Mrs Bagshot...
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She died at Torquay, Devon on 17 November 1853. cf Georgette Heyer The Grand Sophy "Dreadful woman-she never stops talking! ...She is known as Silence...
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The Masqueraders is a 1928 novel written by Georgette Heyer. It is set in Britain at a time shortly after the 1745 Jacobite rising and is concerned with...
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Heyer. The novel is set around 1755: Heyer refers to the Duke of Avon's participation in the 1745 uprising as ten years previous; in addition the Prince...
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The Foundling is a Regency romance novel written by Georgette Heyer and published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1948. It was also serialised in the Woman's...
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The Great Roxhythe is a novel written by Georgette Heyer. The book opens in 1668 and closes in 1685, and concerns the misadventures of a fictional spy...
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Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey (category Women of the Regency era)
Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 9 November 2020. cf Georgette Heyer The Grand Sophy "Dreadful woman-she never stops talking! ...She is known as Silence...
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The Nonesuch is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1816/1817. Sir Waldo Hawkridge, known in London society as 'the Nonesuch'...
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Harry with the army. She remained with him throughout the rest of the Peninsular War, accompanying the baggage train, sleeping in the open on the field of...
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written by Georgette Heyer. It records the plight of a relatively poor girl from the English gentry who captures the attention of a very wealthy man by claiming...
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England in 1818. The beautiful Venetia Lanyon, thanks to a reclusive and over-protective father, grew up in the country, away from the world with only...
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in several of the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer, including Regency Buck and The Grand Sophy. Edward Cave; John Nichols (1851). The Gentleman's Magazine...
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Devil's Cub (redirect from The Devil's Cub)
Heyer's most popular novels. The son of the Duke and Duchess of Avon, the Marquis of Vidal is known as Devil's Cub not only for the excesses of his father but...
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The Corinthian is a regency novel by Georgette Heyer. Sir Richard Wyndham, an accomplished Corinthian, is being forced into marriage by his family, who...
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Frederica (novel) (category The Bodley Head books)
novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1818. The plot is typical of several later Heyer romances in counterpointing the courtships of an older and...
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Cousin Kate (novel) (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
Kate is a 1968 Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1817 and 1818. The novel was written at a point when Heyer, not long after...
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after the Battle of Waterloo, it is the story of the return home from the wars of the Seventh Earl of St Erth to claim his inheritance. The novel incorporates...
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Cotillion (novel) (category Novels set in the 1810s)
Georgette Heyer's twelfth regency romance, published in the UK in January 1953 by Heinemann and in the U.S. in February 1953 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. ' Matthew...
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The Conqueror is a 1931 historical novel written by Georgette Heyer. It is based on the life of William the Conqueror. It was positively reviewed upon...
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The Unknown Ajax is a Regency romance by Georgette Heyer, published in 1959 by Heinemann in the UK and in 1960 by Putnam in the US. It was her forty-seventh...
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marrying the man she has run away from home to avoid, and whom she has caricatured as the villain in her novel. The book features gentle mockery of the Gothic...
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Dorothea Lieven (category Expatriates from the Russian Empire in the United Kingdom)
haughty, formidable and unapproachable leader of society, but in The Grand Sophy she is described as "clever and amusing", and there is a passing reference...
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An Infamous Army (category Novels about the Battle of Waterloo)
Heyer. In the early summer of 1815, while the Battle of Waterloo is just a threat, Brussels is the most exciting city in Europe and many of the British...
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