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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer was born on 16th August 1902 at Wimbledon, London.
A ovelha negra georgette heyer biography
She was the eldest of three children and the only girl, her brothers being Boris and Frank.
It was as a story for her brother Boris that she first wrote The Black Moth. Her father, George Heyer, impressed with his daughter's imagination, suggested that she prepare it to be published, which it was by Constable in 1921 when she was only nineteen.
She continued writing and in 1925 she married Ronald Rougier, a mining engineer.
After reasonable but not spectacular sales from her first few books the instant success of These Old Shades in 1926 brought her a solid source of income which was very necessary at the time, her father having died shortly before her wedding and her youngest brother needing financial support for his education.
In 1927 she joined her husband in Tanganyika where he was working and later went with him to Macedonia 'where she nearly died of an erratically administered anaesthetic in