The Black Moth

Georgette Heyer

Apr 2020 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The Black Moth' was Georgette Heyer’s debut novel. She was only 19 and it surprised the publishing world by selling more than 200,000 copies in 1921. Georgette Heyer essentially invented Regency Romance. This novel is set in 1751 and has Lords, Ladies, and Highway Men. As with all of Heyer’s novels romance, adventure, and intrigue abound. Lord Jack Carstares rescues Diana Beauleigh, a young beautiful English lady from the Duke of Andover who is trying to abduct her. Lord Carstares while brave and courageous has fallen on hard times and has resorted to becoming a highway man. But Diana is about to change all that.

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About the author

Georgette Heyer was born on August 16, 1902 at Wimbledon, London. She wrote The Black Moth as a story for her brother Boris. Her father, impressed with his daughter's imagination, suggested that she prepare it to be published, which it was by Constable in 1921. Having scored an instant success with The Black Moth at the age of nineteen under her own name, Georgette Heyer, she experimented with a pseudonym, Stella Martin, for her third book, published by Mills & Boon. 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 since the family relied to a large extent on the income from Georgette Heyer's writing. She wrote over fifty books during her lifetime and created the Regency England genre of romance novels. She died on July 4, 1974 at the age of 71.