Saturday, September 01, 2007

Epic poetry not the only source of gossip

Jessica Grose has a nice piece about Sophie Gee in the Times--really, and amazingly, it's about eighteenth-century gossip rags! I do not think I have ever seen such a thing in the Style section of the Times! (BTW do take a look at Sophie's quite delightful The Scandal of the Season, especially if you have any lingering fondness for the novels of Georgette Heyer...)
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5 comments:

  1. Rebecca H.9/01/2007 7:48 AM

    I'm so excited to read Gee's novel. And perhaps I should develop a lingering fondness for Georgette Heyer, whom I don't know at all??

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  2. Jenny Davidson9/01/2007 12:04 PM

    In a word, yes!

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  3. Unknown9/02/2007 4:08 PM

    Heyer is a queen. Gee's novel left me feeling that -- though ambitious, well researched, and worth reading, certainly, if you are interested in historical novels --it was, sadly, not all it could have been.

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  4. Jenny Davidson9/02/2007 4:22 PM

    Heyer's novels are quite inconsistent, though. I'm not a big fan of the crime ones, for instance, and though I will really read ANY of the historical ones happily (reread, that is...), I do think that seven or eight of them are significantly superior to the others, and that the formula sometimes wears thin. In any case, I will be very interested to see what kind of a novel Sophie Gee publishes as her follow-up!

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  5. Becca9/05/2007 5:36 AM

    I came home to a notice that it's waiting for me at the library. I fear my reading is becoming merely a tribute to yours...

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