Beauvallet: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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Nicholas Beauvallet is a descendant of Simon the Coldheart, also featured in a novel of the same name by Georgette Heyer, and a definite chip off the same block. The whole village turned out as if for a party and when the time came for the conflagration the police merely ensured that everyone was clear of the building and then stood back to watch with the crowd as the building went up in flames. It would be quite fun to have a modern movie made of this book - someone like Benedict Cumberbatch could carry Beauvallet's part very well. A wonderful thing about Beauvallet is that when El Beauvallet falls in love with Dominica, he does not claim her as his “love” or as his “mistress” or, in our culture, his “girlfriend,” he claims her as his bride.

This small vessel is the Venture, Sir Nicholas’s own ship, with which he defeats the Spaniards and takes prisoner the beautiful Dominica and her father, a former Spanish governor of the West Indies. Upper right front fore-edge corner has a 3/8" v-shaped loss with a two adjacent closed tears of 3/8" and 1/2". Seizing the chance, she tried to kill the hateful pirate -- but as he took her arm and held it she found herself strangely captured by his boyish smile. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Brave deeds of derring-do, espionage and love in the Elizabethan Golden age (prior to Elizabeth's war with Spain) set our English pirate Nick Beauvallet and our Spanish heroine Dona Dominica on a wild, romantic ride.So then Beauvallet invades Spain with an army of 2 to steal away his love and thumb his nose at some arrogant Spanish papists. Set on Elizabethan waters with Francis Drake co-starring, it's clearly a new time for Heyer--but the prose itself seemed to deviate from Heyer's usual to try and "fit in" with the setting. Language as usual is fantastic, educative and expressive and the story, though being relatively short is densely written so it feels like a longer book. On catching the Chevalier trying to steal his horse, Beauvallet kills him in a sword fight and assumes his identity.

Even more dangerous are the Lutheran leanings she has secretly acquired, which place her at mortal risk should they become known in Spain where the Inquisition is in full swing. I kept plodding along, waiting for that catch behind the breastbone, the moment when the narrative jolts to life and drags you along for the ride. Still, there were good characterizations, (I will admit to laughing at the greedy, but totally honest about it, aunt), and the swashbuckling was great. The heroine started up badly, as I thought she would be another too young, naive and slightly stupid heroine, typical of some Heyer's heroines.the heroine, Dominica, is a gem, a rare one if one is permitted to say and the hero is so enchanting and funny in his nonchalant mischievous way. She valued his opinions and admired his knowledge of history as well as his ability to hunt up elusive facts or bits of ‘period colour’ which she could use in her writing. Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet's exploits on the high seas have made him an equal to Sir Francis Drake and a favourite of the Queen.

Spine has several smudges/stains, is heavily sunned, and with significant losses at head and tail of spine and also open scrapes in the center of spine - see photos.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The first part of the book unfolds the romance, and the second half follows Beauvallet as he attempts to keeps his word to find Dominica and bring her to England. Having won a sea battle with a Spanish galleon, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet finds that Don Manuel de Rada y Sylva, the late governor of Santiago, is aboard with his daughter Dona Dominica. Mad Nicholas' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.