So, the other day I picked up a book, The Runaway Bride by Jane Aiken Hodge, on a whim. You can imagine my surprise to discover how much her book echoed that of Georgette Heyer. It felt like I had just entered a familiar room on a different planet. It wasn't Ms. Heyer's world but it was something close enough. For the Heyer fans out there, she wrote an excellent biography of Georgette Heyer.
Her bio reads as follows: Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was born. Their parents' marriage was dissolved in 1929.
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
She died in 2009.
If you are looking for a book to escape into for a bit, consider one from her.
As always, feel free to leave a comment below.
Her bio reads as follows: Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children's writer, was born. Their parents' marriage was dissolved in 1929.
From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, USA, her mother's alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947.
Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject.
She died in 2009.
If you are looking for a book to escape into for a bit, consider one from her.
As always, feel free to leave a comment below.
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