The "Re-reading Georgette Heyer" colloquium was held on Saturday 7 November 2009 in Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. In a press release issued online before the event, Professor Sarah Annes Brown said:

"I've organised quite a few conferences now, but none have received quite so much enthusiastic attention as Re-reading Georgette Heyer. But perhaps that's because I've never organised a conference about a writer who generates so much pure pleasure and enthusiasm in her readers."

As she wrote in her observations on, and summary of, the colloquium, this enthusiasm was much in evidence on the day itself: "I've attended quite a lot of academic conferences, but never one where there was anything like so much cheering and laughter!"

No doubt Heyer herself can take much of the credit for the laughter, since her novels are so full of comic moments and characters. Many of the cheers were elicited by Jennifer Kloester, who had new discoveries and announcements to make. Author Una McCormack was also in attendance, and has written up her experience of the event on her website.

A programme for the colloquium can be found below:

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