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unusual facts about historical romance


Historical romance

These novels are set between 1832 and 1901 England, beginning with the Reform Act 1832 and including the reign of Queen Victoria.


A Civil Campaign

The title is an homage to the Georgette Heyer novel A Civil Contract and, like Heyer's historical romances, the novel focuses on romance, comedy, and courtship.


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A Kingdom of Dreams

A Kingdom of Dreams is a 1989 historical romance novel written by American author Judith McNaught.

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

After 1870 Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint abandoned historical romance for the modern society novel, but her Delftsche Wonderdokter ("The Necromancer of Delft", 1871) and Majoor Frans ("Major Frank", 1875) did not command the success of her earlier works.

Karoline Pichler

She made her mark in historical romance, and the first of her novels of this class, Agathocles (1808), an answer to Edward Gibbon's attack on that hero in his The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, attained great popularity.

Magdalen Dacre

Magdalen Dacre appears in Anya Seton's historical romance Green Darkness, which was partially set in 16th century England.

Mary Jenkins

Mary Balogh (born 1944), née Jenkins, a Welsh-Canadian historical romance novelist

Metahistorical romance

Metahistorical Romance is a term describing postmodern historical fiction, defined by Amy J. Elias in Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction. Elias defines metahistorical romance as a form of historical fiction continuing the legacy of historical romance inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott but also having ties to contemporary postmodern historiography.

Pentrich, Derbyshire

Historical romance and erotic novelist Pam Rosenthal involves the hero and heroine of her novel The Slightest Provocation in the unmasking of the Pentrich uprising's government provocateur.

Redeeming Love

Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers is a historical romance novel set in the 1850s Gold Rush in California.

Regency romance

The sensual Regency historical romance has been made popular in recent years by Mary Balogh, Jo Beverley, Lisa Kleypas, Stephanie Laurens, and Julia Quinn.

The Emperor and the Assassin

The Emperor and the Assassin, also known as The First Emperor, is a 1998 - 1999 Chinese historical romance film based primarily on Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, as described in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.