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Acting on Impulse

Georgette Heyer
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  1. CONTENTS
  2. ACTING ON IMPULSE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. INTRODUCTION
  5. “A PROPOSAL TO CICELY”
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. A PROPOSAL TO CICELY
  8. THE END
  9. READING “A PROPOSAL TO CICELY”
  10. “THE LITTLE LADY”
  11. INTRODUCTION
  12. THE LITTLE LADY
  13. I.
  14. II.
  15. III.
  16. THE END
  17. READING “THE LITTLE LADY”
  18. “LINCKES’ GREAT CASE”
  19. INTRODUCTION
  20. LINCKES’ GREAT CASE
  21. I.
  22. II.
  23. III.
  24. IV.
  25. V.
  26. VI.
  27. VII.
  28. THE END
  29. READING “LINCKES’ GREAT CASE”
  30. “THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST”
  31. INTRODUCTION
  32. THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST
  33. THE END
  34. READING “THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST”
  35. “ACTING ON IMPULSE”
  36. INTRODUCTION
  37. ACTING ON IMPULSE
  38. I.
  39. II.
  40. III.
  41. IV.
  42. THE END
  43. READING “ACTING ON IMPULSE”
  44. “WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?”
  45. INTRODUCTION
  46. WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?
  47. THE END
  48. READING “WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?”
  49. “THE CHINESE SHAWL”
  50. INTRODUCTION
  51. CONT
  52. THE CHINESE SHAWL
  53. I.
  54. II.
  55. III.
  56. IV.
  57. V.
  58. VI.
  59. VII.
  60. VIII.
  61. THE END
  62. READING “THE CHINESE SHAWL”
  63. “THE OLD MAID”
  64. INTRODUCTION
  65. THE OLD MAID
  66. THE END
  67. READING “THE OLD MAID”
  68. “LOVE”
  69. INTRODUCTION
  70. LOVE
  71. I.
  72. II.
  73. III.
  74. THE END
  75. READING “LOVE”
  76. THE SEARCH FOR “ON SUCH A NIGHT”
  77. GEORGETTE HEYER’S BIBLIOGRAPHY
  78. FURTHER READING
  79. COMING SOON!
  80. OCTOBER 29, 2019
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CONTENTS

ACTING ON IMPULSE

Contemporary Short Stories

by

Georgette Heyer

Overlord Publishing

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Copyright Declaration

“A Proposal to Cicely” © 1922; “The Little Lady” © 1922; “Linckes’ Great Case” © 1923; “The Bulldog and the Beast” © 1923; “Acting on Impulse” © 1923; “Whose Fault Was It?” © 1923; “The Chinese Shawl” © 1923; “Love” © 1923; “The Old Maid” © 1925

Additional materials © 2019 by Jennifer Kloester and Rachel Hyland.

Georgette Heyer’s Bibliography courtesy Jennifer Kloester.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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With thanks to Ruth Williamson,

for unmatched attention to detail.

~

For Georgette, forever and always.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

“A PROPOSAL TO CICELY”

INTRODUCTION

A PROPOSAL TO CICELY

READING “A PROPOSAL TO CICELY”

“THE LITTLE LADY”

INTRODUCTION

THE LITTLE LADY

READING “THE LITTLE LADY”

“LINCKES’ GREAT CASE”

INTRODUCTION

LINCKES’ GREAT CASE

READING “LINCKES’ GREAT CASE”

“THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST”

INTRODUCTION

THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST

READING “THE BULLDOG AND THE BEAST”

“ACTING ON IMPULSE”

INTRODUCTION

ACTING ON IMPULSE

READING “ACTING ON IMPULSE”

“WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?”

INTRODUCTION

WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?

READING “WHOSE FAULT WAS IT?”

“THE CHINESE SHAWL”

INTRODUCTION

THE CHINESE SHAWL

READING “THE CHINESE SHAWL”

“THE OLD MAID”

INTRODUCTION

THE OLD MAID

READING “THE OLD MAID”

“LOVE”

INTRODUCTION

LOVE

READING “LOVE”

THE SEARCH FOR “ON SUCH A NIGHT”

GEORGETTE HEYER’S BIBLIOGRAPHY

FURTHER READING

INTRODUCTION

BY JENNIFER KLOESTER

I began my Georgette Heyer research journey in May 1999 with my first visit to the wonderful British Library. Arriving at King’s Cross Station (itself a name to conjure with!) and walking the short distance to the library, receiving a Reader’s Pass and gaining access to the reading rooms in that amazing building was, to me, akin to winning a Golden Ticket and being admitted to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. I was awe-struck by the King’s Library housed in its magnificent multi-storey glass tower at the top of the stairs and by the beautiful Rare Books and Music reading room where, over the next ten years, I would spend so many happy hours pursuing all things Heyer. I’ll never forget being allowed to take possession of Domenico Angelo’s School of Fencing, published in 1787, and spending a glorious hour leafing through its pages. Heyer had used Angelo’s guide in her own research and, though I did not know it then, this first foray into understanding her life and writing would mark the beginning of what has become a twenty-year adventure (which is still ongoing).

In 2001 I began my Doctorate on Georgette Heyer and her Regency novels. In 2002 I travelled to England to meet her son, Sir Richard Rougier, her biographer, Jane Aiken Hodge, and to return to the British Library to further my research. In the first year of my Doctoral studies I had discovered the existence of several untapped archives of Heyer’s early letters and Sir Richard had generously granted me copyright permission to have access to these. It was here that I found the first clue that Georgette Heyer had written short stories in the early 1920s.