Gendering Places: Georgette Heyer's Cultural Topography

This is reprinted in Mary Fahnestock-Thomas's Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective (2001), pages 480-492.

I shall look at correlations between place and gender, particularly in those of Heyer's works which are based on an opposition between "London" and "non-London."

I shall begin by examining the foundations of identity in Heyer. Much is made of the characters' gender and geographical-cum-cultural affiliations. (481)