Rethinking the Gothic Romance: Georgette Heyer – Bibliography

Primary Texts

Jane Austen – Northanger Abbey – 1817

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre – 1847

Georgette Heyer – Sylvester, or The Wicked Uncle – 1957

Georgette Heyer – The Talisman Ring – 1936

Georgette Heyer – The Toll Gate – 1954

Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades – 1926

Lady Caroline Lamb – Glenarvon – 1816

Francis Lathom – Midnight Bell – 1798

John Polidori – ‘The Vampyre’ – 1819

Ann Radcliffe – The Mysteries of Udolpho – 1794

Ann Radcliffe – A Sicilian Romance – 1791

Clara Reeve – The Old English Baron  – 1778

Charlotte Smith – The Old Manor House – 1793

Horace Walpole – Castle of Otranto – 1764

Secondary Sources

Georgette Heyer – A Critical Retrospective ed. by Mary Fahnestock-Thomas – 2001

Anon. – ‘Vacuum Packed Passions’ in The Times Literary Supplement – 30^th August 1974

Barbara A. Bannon – ‘Forecast Fiction’ in Publishers’ Weekly – 1968

T. J. Binyon – ‘Criminal Proceedings’ in The Times Literary Supplement – 25^th April 1986

Dan Crawford – ‘Crimes of the Heart’ – The Armchair Detective – Summer 1992

Joseph Crawford –  The Twilight of the Gothic: – 2014

James P. Devlin – ‘The Mysteries of Georgette Heyer. A Janeite’s Life of Crime’ in The Armchair Detective – Summer 1984

Michael Dirda – Classics for Pleasure – 2007

Joan Forbes – ‘Anti-Romantic Discourse as Resistance: Women’s Fiction 1775-1820’ in Romance Revisited – 1995

Holly Hirst – ‘Georgette Heyer’ in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic – 2020

Jane Aiken Hodge – The Private World of Georgette Heyer – 1984

Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik, ‘Comic Gothic’ in A Companion to the Gothic – 2001

Jennifer Kloester – The Biography of a Bestseller – 2011

L. S. M – ‘Georgette Heyer’s Penhallow’ in Springfield Union – 1943

Mari Ness – ‘Bonapartist Spies: The Reluctant Widow’ – Tor.com – 2013 https://www.tor.com/2013/04/09/the-reluctant-widow-georgette-heyer/

Mari Ness –  ‘Regency Gothic: Cousin Kate’ – Tor.com –  2013 https://www.tor.com/2013/11/26/regency-gothic-cousin-kate/

Madeleine Paschen – ‘The Mystery of Penhallow’ in Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer – 2018

Lillian S. Robinson – Sex, Class and Culture – 1978

Joanna Russ – ‘Somebody’s Trying to Kill Me and I Think It’s My Husband: The Modern Gothic’ in Journal of Popular Culture – 1973

Cat Sebastian – ‘The Heyer Problem – A History of Privilege’ in Essays on the Literary Genius of Georgette Heyer, edited by Rachel Hyland – 2018

Eve Sedgwick – The Coherence of Gothic Conventions – 1980

Catherine Spooner – Post-Millenial Gothic: Comedy, Romace and the Rise of Happy Gothic – 2017

Peter L. Thorslev – Byronic Hero: Types and Prototypes – 1962

Laura Vivanco – ‘Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance’, in JPRS

’ Nancy Wingate – ‘Georgette Heyer: A Reappraisal’ – 1976

English Heritage – https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/georgette-heyer-receives-blue-plaque/