Napoleon’s agents in Regency England: Georgette Heyer’s The Reluctant Widow

Blame it on Yvette! There I was thinking that I was through with Georgette Heyer and her Regency romances but she wrote one interesting post after another so that finally I caved in, picked up one, and read it at one go (though the review is much delayed) . To my surprise, The Reluctant Widow …

Edgar Allan Poe’s Reynolds: And Therein Hangs a Tale

The truth is there are days when the world changes and a man does not notice because his mind is on his own affairs.There are some writers whose life is as (if not more) interesting as the texts they wrote. Edgar Allan Poe is one such. On the 26th of September 1849, Poe was in …