Powder and Patch is a novel written by Georgette Heyer under the pen name Stella Martin. It was originally titled The Transformation of Philip Jettan when...

British Library. Retrieved 11 January 2015. Bannon 1968, pp. 218–19. "Powder & Patch. The transformation of Philip Jettan, etc". British Library Catalogue...

Jacobite rising and is concerned with a family of adventurers and escaped Jacobites. To escape exposure as a former Jacobite, Robin and his sister Prudence...

abilities and perfect manners, is obliged to go into Yorkshire to inspect a property that he has just inherited. Sir Waldo is a very wealthy and philanthropic...

was published in 1932, and has not been out of print since. It is one of Heyer's most popular novels. The son of the Duke and Duchess of Avon, the Marquis...

into chaos and anarchy, with many parties contending for control over the young duke. At first, Alan of Brittany takes custody of the duke, and when Alan...

the courtships of an older and a younger couple, with variation provided by the antics of Frederica's younger brothers and their boisterous mongrel. A...

to a reclusive and over-protective father, grew up in the country, away from the world with only her younger brother Aubrey, bookish and lame, for company...

hair, deep blue eyes and black eyebrows proclaim him a child of the Comte. Not knowing the exact relationship between the boy and Saint-Vire, Avon purchases...

that can be used topically, including cream, ointment, lotion, patches, dusting powder and much more. There are many advantages for this drug delivery system...

transdermal patch is a medicated adhesive patch that is placed on the skin to deliver a specific dose of medication through the skin and into the bloodstream...

chivalry, intrigue and conquest. Set in the medieval period during the Hundred Years' War between England and France, it is her fifth novel, and the first of...

August 1902 – 4 July 1974) was an English novelist and short-story writer, in both the Regency romance and detective fiction genres. Her writing career began...

materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material. In particular, powders refer to those granular...

of Miss Creed's childhood sweetheart, and find themselves in the middle of a dangerous game of mystery, theft, and murder. Richard/Beau Wyndham aka Mr....

combine both genres for which she was noted, the Regency romance and the mystery novel; and it is the only one of her Regency stories to feature Beau Brummell...

and character. The story is set in the spring of 1817. Arabella, the beautiful daughter of a country vicar, sets out to London to have a season and make...

embraces and complacently received insults. The story is set in 1795 at a time that William Pitt the Younger has just introduced a tax on the hair powder fashionable...

Herbert – The Water Gipsies Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund Georgette Heyer – Powder and Patch Robert Hichens – The Bracelet Sydney Horler – Checkmate...

historical romance by Georgette Heyer, set during the Waterloo campaign and published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in 1937. In the following year...

Georgette Heyer. The story is set in 1813. Sir Gareth is a noted Corinthian and has been a confirmed bachelor ever since his betrothed died prematurely,...

getting her own way, with no mother and no governess and after a lifetime of Continental liberty. Outgoing, chic, and quite independent, she takes London...

story of Sir Harry Smith and his wife Juana María de los Dolores de León Smith. He had a fairly illustrious military career and was made a baronet. The...

and The Corinthian (1940), The Talisman Ring blends the genres of romantic comedy and thriller. Jane Aiken Hodge describes it as a "neat comedy" and "very...

the UK and by Putnam in the US. Previously serialised in the Woman's Journal as “My Lady Cardross”, the new novel was Heyer’s forty-fourth book and her fifteenth...

1816/1817. The novel is set in Bath, Somerset and centres on two main characters: Miss Abigail Wendover and Mr Miles Calverleigh. At the beginning of the...

Heyer romances where the hero and heroine are married early in the novel, and the plot follows their path to mutual love and understanding. Other examples...

The Foundling is a Regency romance novel written by Georgette Heyer and published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1948. It was also serialised in the Woman's...

antiperspirants and deodorants), lotions, or ointments, etc. Gels and hydrogels Ear drops Transdermal and dermal patches to be applied to the skin Powders It is...

returned from the Peninsular War and finds life as a civilian rather dull. The setting for this detective/romance story is in and around a Toll-Gate in the Peak...