 To earn income, she periodically interrupted her research to write additional Regency romances; "Lady of Quality", published in 1972, was the last of them, and the last of her novels to be published during her lifetime.Heyer suffered a stroke in July 1973 and was in ill health until her death the following year.The novel is set in Regency England somewhere around 1818, and events are related through third-person narrative.