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If anything good can be said to have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns of 2020, it is that it seems people once again turned to reading as a past-time.  Grown women fell back on what surely was a childhood comfort and began to make a big noise about '''Georgette Heyer''', one of the most prolific novelists of the twentieth century, who always had a loyal following among women but who remained virtually unknown amongst the non-female denizens of the world.  But the tide has turned; by 2022, Vox had headlined her ("When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?"), public libraries finally noticed that her books were not only still in circulation but often had a wait-list, and someone even created a podcast.
If anything good can be said to have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns of 2020, it is that it seems people once again turned to reading as a past-time.  Grown women fell back on what surely was a childhood comfort and began to make a big noise about '''Georgette Heyer''', one of the most prolific novelists of the twentieth century, who always had a loyal following among women but who remained virtually unknown amongst the non-female denizens of the world.  But the tide has turned; by 2022, Vox had headlined her ("When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?"), public libraries finally noticed that her books were not only still in circulation but often had a wait-list, and someone even created a podcast.

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If anything good can be said to have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns of 2020, it is that it seems people once again turned to reading as a past-time. Grown women fell back on what surely was a childhood comfort and began to make a big noise about Georgette Heyer, one of the most prolific novelists of the twentieth century, who always had a loyal following among women but who remained virtually unknown amongst the non-female denizens of the world. But the tide has turned; by 2022, Vox had headlined her ("When will Hollywood discover Georgette Heyer?"), public libraries finally noticed that her books were not only still in circulation but often had a wait-list, and someone even created a podcast.