Friday’s Child

Often lauded as the mother of Regency romance, Georgette Heyer is widely considered a pioneer of the booming historical romance subgenre. From 1935 to 1974, Heyer published more than two dozen meticulously researched Regency-era novels that popularized key elements of the genre that still endure today, including tropes like enemies to lovers and conventions like referring to early 19th-century Britain’s upper crust as “the ton.” In the words of Heyer’s biographer Jennifer Kloester, “Bridgerton...