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unusual facts about romance novel


Leslie Perri

Through her Futurian connections, she also edited minor romance fiction magazines.


A Morgadinha dos Canaviais

A Morgadinha dos Canaviais is a Portuguese romance novel by Júlio Dinis, published in 1868.

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint

Her first romance, Almagro, appeared in 1837, followed by De graaf van Devonshire ("The Earl of Devonshire") in 1838; De Engelschen te Rome ("The English at Rome") in 1840, and Het Huis Lauernesse ("The House of Lauernesse") in 1841, an episode of the Reformation that has been translated into many European languages.

Charlotte Bingham

Charlotte Bingham (b. 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England) is an English novelist who has written over 30 mainly historical romance novels and has also written for many television programmes including Upstairs, Downstairs, Play for Today and Robin's Nest.

Elizabeth Bevarly

Elizabeth Bevarly (b. Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1989.

Emil Cioran

William H. Gass called Cioran's work "a philosophical romance on the modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease".

Ghostwalker series

Ghostwalker Series is the name for a collection of paranormal/romance novels by the American author Christine Feehan which feature the a group of men in the Special Forces and young women who have had their psychic abilities enhanced in a secret experiment.

Marjorie Lewty

Marjorie Lewty, née Lobb (b. 8 April 1906 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK – d. 21 January 2002) was a British writer of short stories and over 45 romance novels from 1958 to 1999 to Mills & Boon.

Netta Muskett

Netta Muskett (born 1887 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England - d. 1963 in Putney) was a British writer of more than 60 romance novels from 1927 to 1963, she also wrote under the pseudonym Anne Hill.

Norrey Ford

Noreen Ford Dilcock (born 28 March 1907 in Kingston upon Hull, England - d. 1985 in Walsall, England, UK) was a British writer of romance novels from 1952 to 1977 under different pseudonyms: Norrey Ford, Jill Christian and Christian Walford.

Reay Tannahill

She also wrote historical romance novels, and in 1990, her novel Passing Glory won in 1990 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Richard Henry Bonnycastle

Through his son, Henry William John Bonnycastle (1813–1888) would come a prominent Bonnycastle family of Canadian politicians and adventurers and the founder of Harlequin Enterprises, the world's largest publisher of romance novels.

Slovene fiction

Family sagas were written by Mira Mihelič; autobiographical novels, popular love stories, Alpine tales etc. enrich the Slovene genre fiction.

The Gospel According to Larry

The Gospel According to Larry is a "coming of age" political, romantic teen novel by Janet Tashjian that explores anti-consumerism.

Tsuyokiss

The romance story is created by Takahiro (video games) and Yasutomo Yamada (anime series), and focuses on a group of students at a high school and the various romantic attachments that the characters feel for each another.

Velvet Jones

In a later episode, Jones endorses his Harlequin romance novels, including Velvet Love, A Touch of Velvet, and Kicked in the Butt by Love.


see also

A Kingdom of Dreams

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

Alexander Kirkland

His friend and theater colleague Forman Brown used him as the model for one of his characters in the early gay romance novel Better Angel (1933).

Chunni Lal

Chunni Lal is a famous character of Bengali romance novel Devdas written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Diane Pershing

Diane Pershing, born and raised in Queens, New York, is a romance novelist, television writer and voice actress.

Foxfire

In the romance novel Foxfire Light by Janet Dailey, a horse and its rider are spooked by the light while riding through the woods in the Ozarks.

Nine West

In Gwyn Cready's comedic romance novel Tumbling Through Time, Seph Pyle is transported back in time to 1705 after trying on a pair of sandals at the Nine West store in the Pittsburgh airport.

Redeeming Love

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

The Devil in Love

The Devil in Love, 1974 romance novel by English author, society figure and media personality Barbara Cartland who wrote more than 700 books (Barbara Cartland bibliography) and was named world's top-selling author (over a billion copies) by Guinness Book of World Records