John Jeffery Farnol (1878 - 1952)

John Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952) was an English author, known for his many romantic novels, some formulaic and set in the English Regency period, and swashbucklers. He with Georgette Heyer founded the Regency romantic genre; one of his first books, The Broad Highway, has been issued in a version edited by Barbara Cartland.