With much help from the members of the Georgette Heyer Appreciation facebook group! Thank you! (This is a work in progress!)
A Civil Contract
1) Returning from Napoleonic Wars as Heir
2) Handsome hero falls into companionable love with plain heroine.
3) Circumstances force protagonist into unwanted marriage
4) Vulgar parent interference
5) Blighted lover continues inappropriate behavior
6) Hated duenna is dispensed with
7) Presumptive heir resents arrival of actual heir
8) Secret unrequited love
9) Handsome eligible man comes into neighborhood -neighbors fawn or get jealous of him.
An Infamous Army
(to be filled later! I need to reread this one)
April Lady
(TBR)
Arabella
1) Intelligent bored hero finally meets his match
2) hero and heroine thrown together under unusual circumstances and fall in love in a short period of time (though in Arabella it takes a bit longer than in other novels)
3) Care for the poor/orphans
4) Girl must marry well in order to save or support her financially poorly off family.
5) portrait of loving family
Flaggables (items that keep coming up in the novels)
Restorative Pork Jelly
Other Themes
Chance encounters in posting inns
Ridiculous gudgeons
Young ladies in distress running away with a bandbox
Great article on Heyer's hero types
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