6/23/2023 0 Comments Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer![]() ![]() ![]() At 24, Kate must support herself, because with no money and no family, she is not likely to make a good marriage. ![]() His death was ignominious, and left his child not only orphaned, her mama having died when Kate was 12, but destitute. Her father, an Army officer, was more successful in war than in peace, where his propensity for gaming squandered what little money he had, since he had been disowned by his starchy father. She is the only offspring of parents who ran off and married without the approval of either of their families. Pretty Kate Malvern is in dire straits as the book opens. Perhaps, like Jane, Georgette is too sensible and too amused by life’s foibles to take the Gothic seriously. Georgette Heyer takes her turn in Cousin Kate, and while this is a darker story than most of her romances, her Gothic tale is not so far-fetched as it is mysterious and uncomfortable for her heroine. Almost every writer of the Romance genre will try her hand at a Gothic tale even Jane Austen did it in Northanger Abbey, although to be really accurate, she was poking fun at her heroine rather than developing a scary tale. ![]()
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