Some readers are delighted by The Nonesuch's use of Regency era slang (and perhaps some coinages by Heyer). The Nonesuch owes much to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, as well as some debt to 'governess novels' such as Jane Eyre. Most of Heyer's novels center on London or Bath, but some of the novels have a more rural setting - and this novel, set in Yorkshire, is perhaps the most rural of her novels. Laurence Calver - a dandy and Sir Waldo's other cousin. Miss Patience Chartley - the daughter of the local rector. Underhill - the owner of Staples and Miss Wield's aunt. Julian, Lord Lindeth - an unambitious aristocrat and Sir Waldo's cousin. Miss Tiffany Wield - a spoiled heiress and the charge of Ancilla. The governess and companion of Miss Wield. A famous Corinthian and the leader of Fashion. While Waldo's young cousin, Lord Lindeth, falls in and out of love with the young ladies of the neighborhood, Waldo must convince the practical Miss Trent that it is not above her station as a governess to fall in love with him. While there, he meets Tiffany Wield, a positively dazzling young heiress who is entirely selfish and possessed of a frightful temper, as well as her far more elegant companion-governess, Ancilla Trent. Sir Waldo is a very wealthy and philanthropic man, and intends to renovate the house to turn it into yet another of his charity orphanages.

Sir Waldo Hawkridge, known in London society as 'the Nonesuch' for his sporting abilities and perfect manners, is obliged to go into Yorkshire to inspect a property that he has just inherited. The Nonesuch is a Regency romance novel by Georgette Heyer.

The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer