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Mar. 31st, 2014 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pensnestDo you have a favourite Georgette Heyer hero?
I think mine is Freddie Standon from Cotillion.
Freddie starts off as one of GH's silly buggers, the sidekick type whose eyes start from his head at any statement with which he takes issue. He's conned into a Cunning Scheme by our heroine. He is a perfect clothes horse, detests the manly sport of boxing, and is frequently invited to advise society ladies on their décor. He is a superb dancer and an escort to whom no husband could possibly object.
Hmm.
By contrast there is Jack, the ideal romantic hero, tall, dashing, blue eyed and cynical, who engages in every manly sport including that of teasing the unfortunate heroine.
And by the end of the book, Kitty has recognised that Jack is basically a pig in human form, and Freddie is kind, sweet, perceptive and competent—and adorable. I love it.
Who is your favourite, and why?
I think mine is Freddie Standon from Cotillion.
Freddie starts off as one of GH's silly buggers, the sidekick type whose eyes start from his head at any statement with which he takes issue. He's conned into a Cunning Scheme by our heroine. He is a perfect clothes horse, detests the manly sport of boxing, and is frequently invited to advise society ladies on their décor. He is a superb dancer and an escort to whom no husband could possibly object.
Hmm.
By contrast there is Jack, the ideal romantic hero, tall, dashing, blue eyed and cynical, who engages in every manly sport including that of teasing the unfortunate heroine.
And by the end of the book, Kitty has recognised that Jack is basically a pig in human form, and Freddie is kind, sweet, perceptive and competent—and adorable. I love it.
Who is your favourite, and why?