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[pensnest]

Do 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?

Comments

[carolyn_claire]

Yeah, I also see a lot of things in Avon now that really aren't so awesome, having first read it really young, too, but I enjoy the way Leonie gets to him and pretty much wraps him around her finger. He was so awful, but then he got better, pretty much against his will and all because of her--it's such a trope, but GH did it so well. Robin I really enjoyed imagining in drag; I thought Pen's guy was kind of a bore, but Robin seemed like fun (and hot--I'm very much into pretty young men in drag). Ferdie is a riot--I had him confused with Freddie, for a while, but figured it out while discussing Cotillion with someone else recently (it's been decades since I read some of them and I've forgotten a lot). Ferdie is the one who was concerned about that Nemesis guy, always creeping up on a fellow, and thinking he was someone a friend of his knew or something. And he commiserated with them on the caterwauling from the choir next door, beastly noise that it was, etc. He was awesome. :)

[pensnest]

Oh yes, the Nemesis fellow, *excellent*.