 The heroine's unwillingness to conform attracts the hero, rather than repels him.British author Georgette Heyer essentially invented the Regency romance in 1935 with the publication of "Regency Buck", and her early Regencies were quite successful.In 1950 she began to work on what she called "the magnum opus of my latter years", a medieval trilogy intended to cover the House of Lancaster between 1393 and 1435.