Millions of men, women, and children were murdered and Heyer’s response was to double-down on the hate in her book.įor example, Goldhanger is implied as having full, long peyos or “side curls.” But the vast majority of British Jews of the Regency era did not. Heyer deliberately created a false image designed to hurt people who had just been nearly annihilated. One of the antagonistic figures in the text is a man named Goldhanger, a Jewish moneylender who is described (courtesy of the amazing blog Smart Bitches Trashy Books) as “a thin, swarthy individual, with long greasy curls, a semitic nose, and an ingratiating leer.” Goldhanger is a villain in the books because of the financial trouble that the Rivenhall family has gone through. The Grand Sophy is about Sophia Stanton-Lacy, the only daughter of a diplomat, who goes to live with her aunt after her father is posted in South America. In response to a social media prompt asking, “What Georgette Heyer character would you want to be and what character would she make you?” Jewish romance author Felicia Grossman broke down for Romance Daily News what Heyer’s legacy means for her. However, one of the biggest criticisms of her work is that it’s antisemitic-most notably in the book The Grand Sophy, published in 1950 and taking place in 1816. Georgette Heyer is a well-known figure within the romance genre, especially the subgenre of historical romance/Regency romance.
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