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FROM: "susana" <susana@ada.lib.id.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 11:11 AM

Hello,
One of our patrons is looking for an author she read 20 years ago, but
can't remember author's name.

She remembers a female English author who wrote historical novels, has a
writing style similar to Jane Austen, and wrote about the Napoleonic
wars. The author may have 3 names.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Susana Ossandon, Librarian
Ada Community Library
10664 W. Victory Rd.
Boise, Idaho 83709

FROM: "Nora M. Armstrong" <narmstro@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 11:38 AM

Could the author be Joan Aiken Hodge? She had some historical romances
set in the Napoleonic era, but the style isn't quite Austenesque.

Or perhaps your patron is thinking of Georgette Heyer - I've heard a lot
of comparisons between her style and Austen's. Heyer wrote Regency
romances, for the most part; one, AN INFAMOUS ARMY, deals with the battle
of Waterloo.

Nora Armstrong
Cumberland County Public Library & Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
(910)483-7878, FAX (910)486-6661
narmstro@cumberland.lib.nc.us

FROM: "Darla Brown" <dbrown@kckpl.lib.ks.us>
REC'D: 12/10/99, 3:46 PM

I second the Georgette Heyer vote...she is the Regency author that every
other Regency author is compared too...included Jane Aiken Hodge. One of my
faves BTW!

susana wrote:

> Hello,
> One of our patrons is looking for an author she read 20 years ago, but
> can't remember author's name.
>
> She remembers a female English author who wrote historical novels, has a
> writing style similar to Jane Austen, and wrote about the Napoleonic
> wars. The author may have 3 names.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Susana Ossandon, Librarian
> Ada Community Library
> 10664 W. Victory Rd.
> Boise, Idaho 83709

--
Darla J. Brown
Readers Services Librarian
West Wyandotte Branch
Kansas, City Ks Public Library


"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton
you might as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw

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