The Grand Sophy
Georgette Heyer · 1950
Heyer virtually invented the Regency romance and wrote it better than anyone who followed her. Sophy Stanton-Lacy's cheerful disruption of the Rivenhall household is pure comedy of manners; her relationship with the furious Charles Rivenhall is the sparring-match romance at its wittiest and most satisfying.
The case against
Midway through, Sophy visits a moneylender named Goldhanger: greasy, hook-nosed, every antisemitic stock trait in the inventory, and this in 1950. The scene is brief; the stain is not. Around it runs a comedy whose heroine wins every encounter by steamrolling it, which you will find either delicious or faintly exhausting. Also, the lovers are first cousins.
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