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The billion-dollar erotic and romantic fiction genre exists for a reason.

To this the nun would retort that Jane Austen had managed to write great romantic fiction while remaining unmarried.

The product placement of romantic fiction also plays a role in how we culturally view romance as a genre.

Specifically, she's a proxy for the consumer of a certain kind of glorious romantic fiction, in which beautiful women suffer magnificently.

Stephens was a trailblazer who helped create a lucrative career path for black and brown women who write romantic fiction novels.

To date, no black author has ever been awarded the RITA, the Romance Writers of America's award for excellence in romantic fiction.

As Mr. Owen's Gallimard struggles to make facts succumb to romantic fiction, his discomfort in his own skin glistens like flop sweat.

But The Sun Is Also a Star, the 2016 romantic fiction with a big screen adaptation in theaters now, is actually somewhat based in science.

Karl and Lena's own romance is kindled after they find a shared appreciation for Smith, which also refuses to adhere to any of the rules of romantic fiction.

With two halves telling the story of the same family in two different timelines, it successfully blurred the line between literary fiction, romantic fiction and time-travel fiction.

One of them, Brenda L. Thomas, author of several romantic fiction books published by Simon & Schuster, has never been a RWA member but said she's closely following the fallout.

Before you write a single wordGreene said that business plans are "romantic fiction," in the sense that they paint an idealistic picture of something that hasn&apost (yet) happened.

"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93% (season 1)What critics said: "You is actually a wicked satire of social media, self-proclaimed "nice guys" and the twisted ideals of romantic fiction.

While few people look to Game of Thrones as the epitome of romantic fiction — it's featured a lot more rape, incest, and abuse than supportive relationships — some strong pairings have emerged.

Works of romantic fiction can take readers across the globe, through time and into different dimensions, but the one thing that unites them is the promise that somehow, some way, everything will work out.

Sina Weibo, a site similar to Twitter, said in its announcement that it was trying to limit the spread of sexually suggestive and violent content and that it would target cartoons, pictures, texts, short videos and romantic fiction.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Call Me By Your Name" became a landmark for gay romantic fiction when it was first published in 2007, but the makers of a new movie version say it will appeal to anyone who enjoys a good love story.

Christian Grey, above it all in Fifty Shades of Grey The chasm between centuries of romantic fiction concerned with wedding a powerful man, a tradition both of these stories could be a part of, and our expectations of what that might be like in reality, has maybe never yawned wider than at our current moment.

On the in-joke of Modern Art, which he liked to capitalize: The notion that the public accepts or rejects in Modern Art, the notion that the public scorns, ignores, fails to comprehend, allows to wither, crushes the spirit of, or commits any other crime against Art or any individual artist is merely a romantic fiction, a bittersweet Trilby sentiment.

It publishes romantic fiction, literary fiction and non-fiction as well as children's fiction.

Richard I of England has been depicted many times in romantic fiction and popular culture.

Men's romantic fiction refers to any fictional portrayal of romantic love either in film, text, or other media and is usually either told from the male protagonist's point of view or taking particular interest in the romance as viewed from a male perspective. Although generally concerning heterosexual relationships, men's romantic fiction also includes gay romantic fiction, romance dealing with love between men. The genre of 'lad lit' also has somewhat similar connotations.

Gloria Isabel Bevan (20 July 1911 - ?) was an Australian-born New Zealand writer of romantic fiction.

After Mills' death, Boon remade the company as a single-genre publishing house, publishing only romantic fiction.

Gerri Russell is an American romantic fiction author, currently residing in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

Margaret Pedler (1877 - 28 December 1948) was a British novelist, who wrote popular works of romantic fiction.

Scott visited the village and stayed at the Griffin Inn in order to attempt his first venture into romantic fiction.

Lecia Cornwall (born c. 1960 in Toronto) is a Canadian author of romantic fiction. Her works have primarily featured the Regency era.

Mrs. Lovett Cameron or Caroline "Emily" Sharp (1844 – 1921) was a British romantic fiction author. She wrote more than fourteen three-volume novels.

Kristmann worked first as a journalist, then as a writer. He wrote more than thirty books, several of them in Norwegian, of romantic fiction.

Tawny Weber is an American romantic fiction writer. Her books are published by Harlequin Blaze. Born in Idaho, she now lives in Northern California.

They are romantic fiction with a sense of humor. They are set in a California public high school (day school for ages 14 to 18, approximately).

Cherry Adair (born 2 April 1951) is an award-winning and best-selling South African American romantic fiction writer. She lives near Seattle, Washington with her husband.

It was written by Emma Frost and directed by Dan Zeff. It begins with a disclaimer: Some of the following is based on fact ... the rest is romantic fiction.

Judy Turner (1936 – 1 January 2019), who wrote under several pseudonyms including Katie Flynn and Judith Saxton, was a British author who wrote numerous popular historical and romantic fiction novels.

Ilona Andrews is the pen name of Ilona Gordon and Andrew Gordon,"Ilona Andrews". 2011-12-02. an American husband-and-wife duo who write urban fantasy and romantic fiction together.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century.

The Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA) is the professional body that represents authors of romantic fiction in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1960 by Denise Robins (first president), Barbara Cartland (first vice- president), Vivian Stuart (first elected chairman), and other authors including Elizabeth Goudge, Netta Muskett, Catherine Cookson, Rosamunde Pilcher and Lucilla Andrews. The RNA has a membership approaching 1000, composed of authors and publishing professionals. It promotes and celebrates excellence in romantic fiction across all sub-genres.

Joseph McAleer, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain: 1914–1950 (1992). Romantic fiction was especially popular, with Mills and Boon the leading publisher.Joseph McAleer, Passion's fortune: the story of Mills & Boon (1999).

Mary Elizabeth Moragne (pen name, A Lady of South Carolina; also known as, Mary E. Moragne Davis; 1815–1903) was an American diarist, and an author of romantic fiction, poetry, and religious topics.

Yoko Mori (森瑤子) (November 4, 1940 July 6, 1993) was a Japanese novelist, essayist, and translator who was known for writing popular romantic fiction. Her real name was Masayo Brackin ( Ito).

In year 2012, he has published six novels. An Innocent Traitor is a crime fiction based on Mafia life and reality of India and Dreams Revenge And Confession is an adult fiction based on illicit relationship. Both novels have been published by Pigeon Books India. My Life Is For You is a romantic fiction, Women's Desire is fiction based on various issues of modern life and For Your Beautiful Dreams is again a romantic fiction which all have been published by Diamond Books.

Concordia Merrel as Isabella in Measure for Measure - by Cavendish Morton (1909) Concordia Merrel (10 September 1885 - 18 May 1962) was a British stage and silent film actress, photographer's model and a prolific author of romantic fiction.

Marion Rose Harris (known professionally as Rosie Harris and born Marion Rose Young on 12 July 1925) is a British author of romantic fiction. Her work is mainly set in Liverpool and Cardiff in the 1920s and 1930s.

Suzanne Brockmann (born 1960) is an American romantic fiction writer. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with her husband, Ed Gaffney, and their two children, Melanie and Jason T. Gaffney. She has also written works under the name Anne Brock.

In 1975, Cooper published her first work of romantic fiction, Emily. It was based on a short story she wrote for a teenage magazine, as were the subsequent romances, all titled with female names: Bella, Imogen, Prudence, Harriet and Octavia.

Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (1897–1968) was an American writer of short stories. Her name is sometimes spelled "Zelia". Although she mostly wrote romantic fiction, she is remembered for three short horror stories she wrote in collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft.

Gerald Mills, Boon's partner in business, died in 1928 giving a devastating blow to Mills & Boon. However, in 1930, Boon reshaped his company and made it into what it is known for today, a publishing house publishing only romantic fiction.

The award is designed to highlight the literary love story in all its forms rather than for pure Romantic Fiction. In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers.

Patsy of Paradise Place, is a romantic fiction novel written by the English author Rosie Harris. The story is mostly set in Liverpool, and talks about the struggles of a young woman named Patsy Callaghan. It was first published in 2002.

Mary Wibberley ( – 29 December 2013) was an English romantic fiction writer. Born in Worsley, she penned 48 novels for Mills & Boon. Her first novel, Black Niall, was published in 1973. Wibberley died following a short illness on 29 December 2013, aged 79.

Camden was short in stature but of a fine physique. For recreation he enjoyed music, theatre, romantic fiction, conversation and food. His vices were sloth and gluttony rather than womanising or gambling. The Earl Camden died in London on 18 April 1794.

Agnes Morrison or Agnes Brysson Inglis Morrison; Nancy Morrison; Christine Strathern (24 December 1903 – 27 February 1986) was a Scottish writer. She wrote biographies, novels and some romantic fiction. Known for writing about Scottish history and for focusing on those usually lost to history.

It sold well and was adapted for the radio.Nancy Brysson Morrisson, Canongate.tv, Retrieved 27 June 2016 Morrison also secretly wrote popular romantic fiction under the name "Christine Strathern". This was kept so secret that the link was not discovered until 30 years after her death.

She was a reporter for ten years and a comic book author. She lives in South Carolina. First published under Red Sage, she was able to write romantic fiction for the first time in 1996. She published several short stories in their Secrets anthologies.

Muttathu Varkey (28 April 1913 – 28 May 1989) was an Indian novelist, short story writer, and poet of Malayalam.Muttathu Varkey at puzha.com He was best known for a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature.Ancy Bay 2015.

Romantic fiction constitutes the largest section of the adult paperback fiction market and Harlequin Mills & Boon publishes series fiction, promotional titles, gift packs and single titles under different brands and imprints: Mills & Boon, and Mira. As of 2008, 200 million Mills & Boon novels were sold globally per annum and, in the United Kingdom, one paperback was sold on average every 6.6 seconds. Mills & Boon accounted for nearly three- quarters of the British romantic fiction market in that year. Outside the UK, Mills & Boon novels were officially launched in India in 2008, although they were already popular in the country due to unofficial imports and purchases from abroad.

Chanda then asked "So why a "romance"? to which Le Clézio replied "This was a slightly ironic word to describe some tragic situations. The book consists of seven dark short stories." Le Clézio continued by saying that"in romantic fiction feeling takes precedence over sociological truth.

Love Story Magazine was an American romantic fiction pulp magazine, published from 1921 to 1947.Doug Ellis, John Locke, and John Gunnison, The Adventure House Guide to the Pulps.Silver Spring, MD : Adventure House, 2000. (pp. 153-4) It was one of the best selling magazines of Street & Smith.

Named for the RWA's first president, Rita Clay Estrada, the award signifies excellence in one of 12 categories of romantic fiction. Authors and editors submit published works for consideration near the end of the year. A few months later, finalists are announced. The winners are presented with a statuette.

Susan Welfare (born 1963) is an English romantic fiction writer who also writes under the pseudonyms Kate Lawson and Gemma Fox. She is also the creator of BBC Radio Norfolk's first audio drama Little Bexham. She attended Downham Market Grammar School and has lived in Norfolk all her life.

In 1870 Jackson developed a chemistry course which evolved into Chemistry I, that he taught for more than forty years. As an adult Jackson enjoyed amateur theatricals and writing poetry and romantic fiction. In retirement he enjoyed gardening at his beautiful estate in Pride's Crossing near Beverly, Massachusetts.

Morrison wrote several biographies, novels and some romantic fiction. She was known for writing about Scottish history and for focusing on those usually lost to history. She died of cancer in St Mary's Hospital, London, on 27 February 1986. Her ashes are buried in her sister's grave in Ballater, Scotland.

Bernard Taylor, (born 1937 in Wiltshire, England) is a British author of horror, suspense and romantic fiction and of true-crime non-fiction. He has written several plays for the theatre, and has also written for television and radio. He has more recently written novels under the pseudonym Jess Foley.

Alexander Fomich Veltman () ( -- ) was one of the most successful Russian prose writers of the 1830s and 1840s, "popular for various modes of Romantic fiction — historical, Gothic, fantastic, and folkloristic".Kornei Chukovsky, Diary, 1901-1969 (Yale University Press, 2005: ), p. 605. He was one of the pioneers of Russian science fiction.

Heyer's earliest works were romance novels, most set before 1800. In 1935, she released Regency Buck, her first novel set in the Regency period. This bestselling novel essentially established the genre of Regency romance. Unlike romantic fiction of the period by other writers, Heyer's novels featured the setting as a plot device.

Sheila Kelly is an American writer. She mostly writes novels in a variety of genres and under several pseudonyms. Among them are science fiction (as S. L. Viehl), romantic fiction (as Lynn Viehl, Gena Hale, and Jessica Hall), and Christian fiction (as Rebecca Kelly). She enjoys quilting, reading, cooking, painting, and knitting.

A documentary on her life, Winifred Foley – A Child from the Forest, was broadcast on British ITV in 2001.Guardian and The Times obituaries. Subsequent works of reminiscences included No Pipe Dreams for Father, Back to the Forest and In and Out of the Forest. She also had some romantic fiction published.

Jamsai Jamsai is a publishing company located in Bangkok, Thailand. Publishing since 2002, Jamsai has four brands: Jamsai Publishing Books, Enter Books Publishing, Zion Press Publishing, and Book Wave Publishing. It is considered one of the largest publishers of teen romantic fiction in Thailand. This publishing company has published many famous Thai writers. วาเลนไทน์ให้ของขวัญเป็นหนังสือ. มติชน.

Barrett Willoughby (May 18, 1901 – July 29, 1959),Library of Congress Card Catalogue Florance Barrett, was a best-selling novelist who wrote works of romantic fiction and nonfiction from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her writing was mainly mostly set in Alaska, where she spent many years. Some of her works were made into movies.

Leroy Douresseaux, writing for Comic Book Bin, described the art as "pretty", finding it incongruous with the "screwed up" psychological nature of the stories, describing it as being "a damn good read – tawdry and scandalous the way good romantic fiction should be." Holly Ellingwood, writing for Active Anime enjoyed the presentation of obsessive love.

Estrada was a founding member and the first president of the Romance Writers of America (RWA). Their signature award, the RITA, which is the highest award of excellence given in the genre of romantic fiction, is named for her. The RWA also awarded Estrada their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. She and her husband are divorced.

Joseph McAleer, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain: 1914-1950 (1992). Romantic fiction was especially popular, with Mills and Boon the leading publisher.Joseph McAleer, Passion's fortune: the story of Mills & Boon (1999). Romantic encounters were embodied in a principle of sexual purity that demonstrated not only social conservatism, but also how heroines could control their personal autonomy.

Micale (2008), p. 65 He was a member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine and of the Medical Society of London. The theoretical work of Georget was influential in establishing the view that 19th century writers of romantic fiction took of the insane and of criminals. Georget died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 33.

Niece and aunt had bonded over a love of 'bad' romantic fiction, such as that by Rachel Hunter; and when during her engagement Anna began writing a novel - known as Enthusiasm or Which is the Heroine? - it was natural for her to share it with her aunt.Deirdre Le Faye ed., Jane Austen's Letters (Oxford 1995) p.

Joseph McAleer, Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain: 1914–1950 (1992). Romantic fiction was especially popular, with Mills and Boon the leading publisher.Joseph McAleer, Passion's fortune: the story of Mills & Boon (1999). Romantic encounters were embodied in a principle of sexual purity that demonstrated not only social conservatism, but also how heroines could control their personal autonomy.

Cornucopia; (1907) – Bert Leston Taylor and Franklin P. Adams. A dramatic composition in two acts. The Charlatans; published by The Bobbs-Merrill company (1906) – Romantic fiction with illustrations by George Brehm. The novel is a love story with a layering of satire against the background of musical education, and includes dark moments of betrayal and a tragic suicide.

He died on 29 May and was buried at Penbryn Church. She spent time in London for her education and marriage, but eventually returned to her Welsh roots. Wales features largely in her romantic fiction, with titles such as A Welsh Singer (1896) and A Welsh Witch (1902). She remained there until her death on 21 June 1908.

Margery Lawrence (8 August 1889 – 13 November 1969) (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur E. Towle) was an English romantic fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction and detective fiction author who specialized in ghost stories.Stefan Dziemianowicz, "Lawrence, Margery (Harriet)", in S. T. Joshi and Dziemianowicz, (ed.) Supernatural Literature of the World : an encyclopedia. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005. (p. 698-700).

Alan Goble, The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film, Bowker Saur (1999) - Google Books pg. 358 She divorced Franklin Dyall in 1929 so he could marry the actress Mary Merrall. She married Cavendish Morton in 1935 and remained married to him until his death in 1939. She began writing romantic fiction in the 1920s, publishing her last novel in 1956.

The island plays host to the Le Prince Maurice Prize, a literary award celebrating and recognizing 'writers of the heart'. The award is designed to highlight the literary love story in all its forms rather than for pure Romantic Fiction. In keeping with the island's literary culture the prize alternates on a yearly basis between English-speaking and French-speaking writers.

Pender Hodge Cudlip, she was among the most prolific writers of romantic fiction: well over 100 novels and short stories between 1862 and the early 20th century.Who's Who, 1905. Vol. 57. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905, p. 1246. The best known include Theo Leigh (1865), A Passion in Tatters (1872), He Cometh Not, She Said (1873) and Allerton Towers (1882).

Michael Owen Carroll (born 21 March 1966) is an Irish writer of novels and short stories for adults and children. He is best known for his series of superhero novels The New Heroes (called Quantum Prophecy in the US), and for his romantic fiction under the name Jaye Carroll. He also writes Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine.

"Ente Thankam" (My Darling) is a short story written by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. It is his first published work. Originally published in the now- defunct newspaper Jayakesari in 1937, it was later published in the collection Vishappu (Hunger, 1954, Current Books) under the name "Thankam". A path- breaker in Malayalam romantic fiction, it had its heroine a dark-complexioned hunchback.

In its early days, Mills & Boon was not an exclusive publisher of romantic fiction: it published general fiction, "travel guides, children’s and craft books", as well as "educational textbooks, socialist tracts and Shakespeare".A fine romance: a history of Mills & Boon, reading.ac.uk. Retrieved on 1 October 2018. The company continued to publish such titles till the unexpected death of Mills in 1928.

Popular parts of the magazine included monthly budget meal plans and romantic fiction. There was a rise in male-authored articles, including "Men Don't Want Clever Wives," and "What Did Your Husband Give Up For Marriage?"(August 1938). The magazine encouraged participation from readers, offering a prize of $25 to the best letter written in response to one of their articles.

Eleanor Mercein Kelly (August 30, 1880 - October 11, 1968) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She wrote one biographical study, The Chronicle of a Happy Woman: Emily A. Davison (1928), but is best known for her romantic fiction, most of which was set in exotic locales. She was widely traveled, and used her travels as inspiration for her novels.Mainiero, Lina.

Jennifer Echols is an American writer of romantic fiction for young adults.Jennifer Echols at Fantastic Fiction A former newspaper editor, college teacher, and freelance copyeditor, Echols now writes full-time. She lives in Alabama with her husband and son. Her first novel, Major Crush, drew on her own experiences as the first female drum major of her high school marching band.

Her novel A Love for All Time has been used as an example in the textbook Writing Romantic Fiction, by Helen Barnhardt. Garlock is also a member of the Romance Writers Hall of Fame. Garlock donated many of her manuscripts and other unpublished writings to the University of Iowa libraries. She and her husband, Herb Garlock Sr., lived in Clear Lake, Iowa.

Kristmann Guðmundsson (October 23, 1901, Thverfell, Borgarfjörður — November 20, 1983, Reykjavík) was an Icelandic novelist notable for his works of romantic fiction. Kristmann was born out of wedlock to a country girl who left him in the care of her impoverished family. He ran away from home at the age of thirteen. From 1924 to 1937 he lived in Norway, and returned to Reykjavík in 1938.

Lena Kennedy (June 15, 1914 – August 1, 1986), was an English author. Her books were mostly historic romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London where she lived for all her life. Some of her books, including her autobiography, were published posthumously. She appeared, as a subject, on the television programme This Is Your Life shortly before her death in 1986 .

Mary Josephine Beverley (née Dunn; 22 September 1947 – 23 May 2016) was a prolific English-Canadian writer of historical and contemporary romance novels from 1988 to 2016. Her works are regarded as well researched, filled with historical details, and peopled by communities of interlinked characters, stretching the boundaries of the historical romantic fiction genre. They have been translated into several languages, and she has received multiple awards.

She drew on her experiences as an ambulance driver during second world war for a work of romantic fiction, Blitz on Balaclava Street (1983), published under the pseudonym of Clare Nicol. Adair was joint head of the Writer's Guild with Denis Norden and called a six-week strike in the 1960s, which eventually led Lew Grade agreeing to minimum wages and royalties for scriptwriters.

219x219px Marx's theories, including the negative claims regarding the division of labour, have been criticised by the Austrian economists, notably Ludwig von Mises. The main argument here is the economic gains accruing from the division of labour far outweigh the costs. It is argued that it is fully possible to achieve balanced human development within capitalism and alienation is downplayed as mere romantic fiction.

Elisabeth appears as a significant character in Gary Jennings' 1987 novel Spangle. The novel concerns a circus traveling through Europe at the close of the 19th century, and portrays Elisabeth's interest in circuses and daredevil horseback riding. Her story inspired the 2003 children's book The Royal Diaries: Elisabeth, The Princess Bride. The empress appears in the 1976 romantic fiction novel Stars in my Heart by Barbara Cartland.

He will be more outrageous to the heroine, and harder on her. He realises he is beginning to feel, he has to resolve that conflict." In 2011, psychologist Susan Quilliam blamed romantic fiction, and Mills & Boon in particular, for poor sexual health and relationship breakdowns. She made the claim in her paper "'He seized her in his manly arms and bent his lips to hers…'.

Wright was born in Minnesota. As an adult, she pursued a career as an actress, singer and competitive ballroom dancer, teaching ballroom dancing and Latin dancing for more than ten years. After many years of reading romance novels, Wright left dancing and attempted to write romantic fiction. After three years of writing, she sold a manuscript to Harlequin books for their Silhouette Desire line of category romances.

A Crazy Careless Life, a fiction based on abject social reality and communal violence is published by Mahaveer Publishers. In 2013, he has published his next book After All You Are My Destiny, a romantic fiction based on a coincidental journey of two strangers. The book has been published by Diamond books. His tenth book When Heaven Falls Down is published by Mahaveer Publishers.

It was in France that Mary, encouraged and instructed by her husband, began to try her own hand at professional writing. She began to create and sell romantic fiction to women's magazines. Her stories often featured the motif of a rugged and energetic heroine who managed to win the affection of a coveted male over a more constrained and conventionally feminine rival.Garrison, Mary Heaton Vorse, pg. 31.

Best known as Roberta Leigh, she was born Rita Shulman in London to sometimes- poor Jewish parents who had emigrated from Russia. In 1948, she married Michael Lewin, with whom she had one son, and was widowed in 1981. She died age 87 on 19 December 2014. Leigh wrote her first romantic fiction at age 14, while still a schoolgirl at St Mary's convent in Rhyl.

Daveluy contributed articles to various periodicals including the ', La Bonne Parole, L'Oiseau bleu and L'action française. Her novels for youth combined Canadian history with romantic fiction. She also published a number of fairy tales including Le Filleul du roi Grolo, Sur les ailes de l'oiseau bleu and Une Révolte au pays des fées. She was the first woman to become a member of the Montreal Historical Society.

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856 in London – 23 April 1932 in Funchal) was an English novelist who started with improving, pious stories for children, moved on to historical fiction for older girls, and then turned to adult romantic fiction. She wrote about 350 books, more than 200 of them under her own name, and others using the pseudonyms H. F. E., Cecil Adair, E. Ward and Evelyn Dare.

Bemberg was only able to make the film after President Raúl Alfonsín outlawed film censorship in 1982, making it a political statement as much as it is a romantic fiction. Despite the romantic plot led by the Camila and Ladislao Gutierrez, the Jesuit priest, the film is distinct for its unromantic end in the midst of the dictatorship of Juan Manuel de Rosas. The film cost US$370,000 to make.

Elavunkal Joseph Philip () (13 June 1926 – 13 June 1987), popularly known by his pen name Kanam EJ, was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and lyricist. Along with his contemporary, Muttathu Varkey, he was known for a genre of sentiment-filled romantic fiction known as painkili (janapriya) novel in Malayalam literature, written with the common man in mind. Philip started the well known Malayalam weekly Manorajyam and served as its editor.

She has won four RWA RITA Awards, the highest award given in romantic fiction. Her first RITA was for Best Historical Romance in 1986 for Not So Wild a Dream. Her subsequent ones, in 1995, 1996, and 1997, have been for Best Inspirational Romance. She executive produced and wrote the script for the upcoming film adaptation of her novel, Redeeming Love, which is set to debut in theaters in 2021.

Bram Stoker is best known as the author of the 1897 novel Dracula. James Joyce (1882–1941) published his most famous work Ulysses in 1922, which is an interpretation of the Odyssey set in Dublin. Edith Somerville continued writing after the death of her partner Martin Ross in 1915. Dublin's Annie M. P. Smithson was one of several authors catering for fans of romantic fiction in the 1920s and 1930s.

Annie Shepherd Swan, CBE (8 July 1859 – 17 June 1943) was a Scottish journalist and fiction writer, who wrote mainly under her maiden name, but also as David Lyall and later Mrs Burnett Smith. As a writer of romantic fiction for women, she published over 200 novels, serials, stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death in 1943.Aitken, William Russell. Scottish Literature in English and Scots: A Guide to Information Sources.

Connell, R. W (1995) Gender and Power, Cambridge: Polity Press. Farrell reports, for example, that magazines about marriage and romantic fiction continue to attract a 98% female readership.Farrell, W. (2000) Women Can’t Hear What Men Don’t Say, New York: Tarcher/Putnam. Systematic research into courtship processes inside the workplace as well two ten-year studies examining norms in different international settingsMolloy, J. (2003) Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others, London: Element.

He spent over twenty years in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and France working in the fields of community social development and the defense of children's rights. He is a psychologist expert with Courts of Appeal.O'Brien Press- Retrieved 2019-02-02 His first novel was published in 1993 by Editions Gallimard. All in all, he wrote 25 other books in the genres of romantic fiction, young adult fiction, and travel diary as well as poetry.

Kathleen Fuller (born September 11, 1967) is an American writer, specializing in Christian and Amish romantic fiction. She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and currently resides in Geneva, Ohio with her husband, James Fuller, and three children. As a stay-at-home mother of three Kathleen Fuller became enamored with Christian fiction. She started writing in 2000, and a year after published her first short story.

Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time, although her works are relatively tame by modern standards. She popularized the concept of the It-girl, and had tremendous influence on early 20th-century popular culture and, possibly, on the careers of notable Hollywood stars such as Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson and, especially, Clara Bow.

Kwong is also a romantic fiction writer. He published his successful debut book Love You Like the First Time We Met in 2014. His second book, There is a Kind of Happiness Called Forgetting, sold more than 10,000 copies at the annual Hong Kong Book Fair in the same year. He also drew attention online after he published a short love essay entitled "The Last Time You Were On Whatsapp" on the internet in 2012.

Blair began writing while a stage actor, doing so in his spare time. Initially he wrote plays for theatre and television, but later began to write novels. He started out as a thriller writer, but after being unsuccessful with this genre, switched to writing romantic fiction. Upon submitting the first of these stories, titled Where No Man Cries, to his publishers in 1982, it was suggested the book would sell better if the author was a woman.

Lori Copeland had a relatively late start in writing, breaking into publishing in 1982 when she was forty years old. Over the next dozen years, Copeland's romance novels achieved much success, as was evidenced by her winning the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and Waldenbooks' Best Seller award. Despite her success in more mainstream romantic fiction, in 1995, Copeland decided to switch focus. Her subsequent books have been in the relatively new subgenre of Christian romance.

The three Lovecraft-Bishop revision stories also appear in The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Bishop's preference was for romantic fiction, of which she wrote and published far more than she did of the weird. She lived in Kansas City with her husband D.W. Bishop, took an active role in the National Federation of Press Women, the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Missouri Women's Press Club. She authored a historical series about Clay County, Missouri.

The story is told in the first person from the perspective of the young man. The story has fairy-tale elements in its simple and intentionally naive language, unexpected events, and images of romantic landscapes. The young man's "Wanderlust" is motivated externally by his father and internally by his desire for the "weite Welt" ("big, wide world"), fleeing sedentary life. Combining elements of dream and reality, it has been called a "high point of Romantic fiction".

These works were written or edited by the American fiction writer Andre Norton (Andre Alice Norton, born Alice Mary Norton, 1912–2005). Before 1960 she used the pen name Andrew North several times and, jointly with Grace Allen Hogarth, Allen Weston once. Norton is known best for science-fiction and fantasy, or speculative fiction, a field where her work was first published in the 1950s. She also wrote crime fiction, romantic fiction, and historical fiction, mainly before 1960.

In 1918 she travelled to London where she wrote the play Uncle Tibbett's Twins, which had Australian and cross-dressing themes. The Year Between, classed as romantic fiction, was her last novel and dealt with the mistreatment of Aboriginal people and the ANZAC landing in Gallipoli. Her detective drama, The Flaw, written with the English actress Emélie Polini, was a melodrama. Her last play, Governor Bligh, a historical comedy about William Bligh, was produced by Allan Wilkie.

The Parthenon consisted of romantic fiction, serial stories, essays, poems, household hints, reviews and letters. By Turner's admission, many of the contributions were contributed by herself and Lilian under various pseudonyms, with the children's page largely being Ethel's responsibility. The Parthenon which lasted for three years sold about 1,500 copies per month and made £50 annually for its editors. The Parthenon had already been in circulation for two years when the Cope family moved to Lindfield in September 1891.

He walked into the office of a newspaper Jayakesari whose editor was also its sole employee. He did not have a position to offer, but offered to pay money if Basheer wrote a story for the paper. Thus Basheer found himself writing stories for Jayakesari and it was in this paper that his first story "Ente Thankam" (My Darling) was published in the year 1937. A path-breaker in Malayalam romantic fiction, it had its heroine a dark-complexioned hunchback.

Blind Corner was Mercer's first foray into the thriller genre, having found himself bored with writing romantic fiction. He wanted to write something "worthier of a real author" along the lines of Bulldog Drummond or The Thirty- Nine Steps. He took as his pattern Treasure Island, and the book owes much to Robert Louis Stevenson. A non-comic thriller was a departure for the author, and neither The Windsor Magazine nor Ward Lock, the publisher of his other books, were interested.

Wilna Adriaanse (born 1958) is a South African Afrikaans romantic fiction writer. Her first book, Die wingerd sal weer bot, was published in 2000 under the name Wilmine Burger. Her book, 'n Heildronk op liefde, won the 2003 Lapa Publishers’ Prize for Romance and in 2009 she was awarded the ATKV- Woordveertjie prize for her novel, Die boek van Ester.HAT Taal-en-feitegids, Pearson, December 2013, Adriaanse was born on 19 March 1958 in the Kalahari, and grew up in Worcester.

The turning point came when fiction editor of the Daily Mail told her, "You're barking up the wrong tree: you must write something which is saleable, and the easiest way is to write romantic fiction." Hibbert read 50 romance novels as research and then published her first fiction book, Daughter of Anna, in 1941. It was a period novel set in Australia of the late 18th and 19th centuries. It was a moderate success and Hibbert received £30 as advance for it.

Parris Afton Bonds is an American historical romantic fiction novelist. She is the co-founder of Romance Writers of America. Bonds started her professional writing career in the early 1970s with her first sale to Modern Secretary magazine, and in 1981 Time magazine called Bonds one of the many women who supplement their family income by writing romance novels. Her predominant genre is historical romance, but her works include other genres such as westerns, murder mysteries, sagas, and international thrillers.

Bonds is a regular on bestseller lists and has been published in more than a dozen languages. ABC's Nightline called her one of the three bestselling authors of romantic fiction in America. She co-founded both Romance Writers of America, of which she was the first Vice President, and Southwest Writers Workshop. The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor published writers who give outstandingly of their time and talent to other writers.

Saxby's career started in the 1860s when several of her tales and some poetry were printed. Lichens from the Old Rock, a poetry book, was published in 1868, the first of the 47 books she authored. The subject matter of her books was varied, covering diverse topics such as romantic fiction, folklore but particularly boys adventure stories. She also wrote around 100 articles that were printed in newspapers, journals and magazines like Life and Work and The Boy's Own Paper.

Patricia Uberoi looks at how the narratives of romantic fiction published in the English Language magazine Woman's Era serves important and cautionary functions for its women readers. Uberoi takes care to mention that this art form is not received in exactly the same way that romance fiction in the West is received even though the plots and styles may sound similar. This section looks at how the often formulaic plots offer up a range of plattitudes for happy hetero-normative conjugal and family life.

The brunt of Mark Twain's satire and criticism of Cooper's writing, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" (1895), fell on The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder. Twain wrote at the beginning of the essay: "In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offenses against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record." He then lists 18 out of 19 rules "governing literary art in domain of romantic fiction" that Cooper violates in The Deerslayer.

Myne Whitman (born Nkem Okotcha; 26 October 1977) is a writer, editor and publisher from Nigeria. She is the author of two romance novels, both of which rose to the top of Amazon.com bestseller lists for romantic fiction within their first few months of being self-published. This feat, achieved through targeted and sustained online book promotion among fiction bloggers, and the Nigerian online and traditional media, brought her to the attention of literary circles in Nigeria where romance and fiction in general, is not very common.

Michele Bardsley is the pen name of Michele Freeman (born Michele Renee Vail on January 21, 1970 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) who is an American writer of paranormal and contemporary romantic fiction. Bardsley is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author and has published more than 40 novels, novellas, short stories, and articles since the publication of her first book in 1999. She's written young adult paranormal fiction under Michele Vail. She lives in Texas with her husband, four dogs, and two cats.

Phone novels started out primarily read and authored by young women on the subject of romantic fiction such as relationships, lovers, rape, love triangles, and pregnancy. However, mobile phone novels are gaining worldwide popularity on broader subjects. Rather than appearing in printed form, the literature is typically sent directly to the reader via email, SMS text message, or subscription through an online writing and sharing website, chapter by chapter. Japanese Internet ethos regarding mobile phone novels is dominated by pen names and forged identities.

The character most clearly based on Chandler is the usually drunken writer Roger Wade. Like Chandler, Wade had a string of successful novels behind him, but as he grew older he found it more difficult to write. Also, like Chandler, Wade had written novels (romantic fiction) that were viewed by many as not real literature, whereas Wade wants to be thought of as a serious author. Wade also stands in for Chandler in discussions about literature, as in his praise of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Cavendish Morton (17 February 1911 – 30 January 2015) was a British painter and illustrator, a member of the Norwich Twenty Group. Born at Thornton Heath, London, he was son of the actor, art director and photographer Cavendish Morton (1874–1939) and Mary Phyllis Joan Logan, who acted and wrote romantic fiction under the name Concordia Merrel. After a period of nomadic wandering the family settled in Bembridge in the Isle of Wight where the couple home- schooled their sons with an emphasis on the arts.

But the story is romantic fiction, not a biography. The introduction describes it as "not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales." Kaye, in the title role, portrays Andersen as a small-town cobbler with a childlike heart and a vivid imagination. A large part of the narrative is told through song and ballet and includes many of the real Andersen's most famous stories, such as The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Little Mermaid.

Dreamspinner Press is a Tallahassee, Florida based LGBTQ publisher. Dreamspinner Press is an independent publisher, specializing in gay romantic fiction with print, eBook, and audiobook releases, and titles translated in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Turkish and Hungarian. Titles include content in contemporary, historical, mystery and suspense, science fiction, fantasy and paranormal, steampunk, transgender, Western, and humor genres, along with the house branded lines. In March 2012, a GLBT teen and new adult fiction imprint, Harmony Ink Press, was launched for readers ages 14–21.

She has had more than 4.0 million library lends in the United Kingdom since she started writing. In 2011, she was inducted into the Festival of Romance Hall of Fame for her outstanding contribution to romance writing. In 2015 Carole was presented with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association for 25 novels which have consistently appeared in bestseller lists, and for her continued championing of the RNA and romantic fiction. As well as writing, Matthews has also been a television presenter and is a regular radio guest.

Writing was an accidental career. Crusie's MFA dissertation focused on the impact of gender on narrative strategies. To research the differences in the way men and women tell stories, Crusie read one hundred romance novels written by women, planning on following that by reading one hundred adventure novels written by men. The romance novels were so compelling that Crusie changed her dissertation to focus on romantic fiction and decided to try her hand at writing a romance novel. She quit her job in the summer of 1991 to devote herself full-time to writing.

A blood test later proves the paternity claim to be false, allowing Jimmy to make amends with Abi, who keeps secret the details of the night she spent with Charlie. Meanwhile, as Susan and Daniel try to control their feelings for each other, Mark starts an affair with a scheming romantic fiction writer, Angela Cole (Susie Amy), who has previously struck up a false friendship with Susan. When Susan finds out about Mark's infidelity she walks out into the arms of Daniel. Various subplots supplement the main storylines.

As misunderstandings and jealousies take centre stage, Geet must make a decision that will affect not just her own life, but also those of her loved ones. She Swiped Right into My Heart is a story about love gained and lost, and the healing power of friendship. . #All Rights Reserved For You – All Rights Reserved for You is Sudeep Nagarkar’s 8th novel and this time, he is enchanting his own love story with his to-be wife, Jasmine. Although everything is cloaked under the layers of romantic fiction, one that Sudeep does the best.

Wood's first novel, The Hungry Tide, was published in 1993 after winning the Catherine Cookson Prize for Romantic Fiction. Wood has released many novels including The Innkeeper's Daughter, and The Doorstep Girls which were named in The Times best-seller list in 2013 and 2015 respectively. Her 19th novel His Brother's Wife was released in September 2013 and reached number 11 in the Bookseller charts. The Hungry Tide was also re-released to celebrate the novel's 20th anniversary along with the rest of the author's back catalogue, many titles of which have made the Times best-seller list.

Bede used a Latin form of the word Scots as the name of the Gaels of Dál Riata. Authors of romantic fiction have been influential in creating the popular image of Scots as kilted Highlanders, noted for their military prowess, bagpipes, rustic kailyard and doomed Jacobitism. Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels were especially influential as they were widely read and highly praised in the 19th century. The author organised the pageantry for the visit of King George IV to Scotland which started the vogue for tartanry and Victorian Balmoralism which did much to create the modern Scottish national identity.

Evidently the story of Slumach and Pitt Lake gold was circulating among prospectors at that time. Only in 1939 did Slumach become a permanent part of the Pitt Lake Gold legend when Jack Mahony interviewed pioneer Hugh Murray.Jack Hamony, "Oft-sought Pitt Lake gold still awaits discovery," Province, 30 June 1939. Although the article contains mostly “romantic fiction” it became the source of many stories about Slumach and the treasure at Pitt Lake.The imaginary “Slummock” in this article is a middle-aged “half-breed Red River Indian” hanged for murdering another “half-breed” prospector by drowning.

Pat Booth, Lady Lowe (24 April 1943 – 11 May 2009) was an English model, photographer, and author of romantic fiction. Raised in the East End of London by a boxer father and an ambitious mother, Booth posed for such photographers as Norman Parkinson, Allen Jones and David Bailey in the 1960s. Famously, she was the model for Allen Jones's "table" depicting a woman on all fours. She later became a photographer herself, taking pictures of such well-known figures as David Bowie and Bianca Jagger, Jean-Claude Duvalier as well as Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother.

The threat of America's entry into World War I had seriously weakened the real estate market, so in early 1915 Lane accepted a friend's offer of a stopgap job as an editorial assistant on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. The stopgap turned into a watershed. She immediately caught the attention of her editors not only through her talents as a writer in her own right, but also as a highly skilled editor for other writers. Before long, her photo and byline were running in the Bulletin daily, churning out formulaic romantic fiction serials that would run for weeks at a time.

Genuine appreciation of natural scenery has its proper gradations of admiration and love for every landscape, but it is in all its varied characters essentially different and distinct from mere adventitious associations. Grant became reconciled to mountain heights, glens, and cataracts, for the sake of those who had trodden and sung there; or under the spell of romantic fiction. She learned to like the severe and stately glory of desert ranges; but it was after the same manner that some persons take pleasure in sea-views, on account of the graceful ships and pretty boats which diversify the monotonous vastness of the ocean.

Limerence can be difficult to understand for those who have never experienced it, and it is thus often dismissed by non-limerents as ridiculous fantasy or a construct of romantic fiction. Tennov differentiates between limerence and other emotions by asserting that love involves concern for the other person's welfare and feeling. While limerence does not require it, those concerns may certainly be incorporated. Affection and fondness exist only as a disposition towards another person, irrespective of whether those feelings are reciprocated, whereas limerence deeply desires reciprocation, but it remains unaltered whether or not it is returned.

Paranormal romance is a subgenre of both romantic fiction and speculative fiction. Paranormal romance focuses on romantic love and includes elements beyond the range of scientific explanation, blending together themes from the speculative fiction genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Paranormal romance may range from traditional category romances, such as those published by Harlequin Mills & Boon, with a paranormal setting to stories where the main emphasis is on a science fiction or fantasy-based plot with a romantic subplot included. Common hallmarks are romantic relationships between humans and vampires, shapeshifters, ghosts, and other entities of a fantastic or otherworldly nature.

Meghan Miles, a newscaster for local Los Angeles TV affiliate KZLA6, is rejected for an anchor position with a network news program in favor of someone with an Asian last name. Having made prior plans with her friends Rose and Denise to go clubbing, Meghan ends up highly intoxicated and is invited to join a group of men in a booth. When one of the men invites her to leave with him, she instead leaves on her own, only to become trapped on a fire escape. She's rescued by Gordon, a part-time bartender at the club and a romantic fiction writer.

It offers a programme of events throughout the year including an annual conference and workshops/seminars on aspects of writing craft and the publishing industry. The organisations also supports a number of regional chapters, who meet regularly to discuss issues of concern to writers of romantic fiction. The organisation also runs the New Writers' Scheme, under which unpublished authors receive an appraisal of their work from an experienced member of the Association. Netta Muskett was co-founder and vice-president of the association and the Netta Muskett Award for new writers, now called the RNA New Writers Scheme, was created in her honour.

He had a relationship with his Where the Heart Is co-star Georgia Tennant, who played his on-screen girlfriend, Alice Harding. They ended the relationship in 2006, but remain good friends. He has a sister and three half-brothers, and is, as are they, first cousin, once removed of Peter Darvill-Evans as well as his younger brother, the composer Mark Darvill-Evans. He is related on his father's side to Edward Stone, an eighteenth-century clergyman who discovered the active ingredient in Aspirin, as well as Irene Kathleen Stiles (1901–1964), who wrote romantic fiction under the pen name of Romilly Brent.

Osgood worked as a violin teacher in Boston and was one of the leading solo violinists in the US. She composed and published a number of vocal and instrumental pieces, was a scholarly writer regarding art, and met with local success as a writer of short stories in romantic fiction. Osgood organized and conducted the ladies' orchestra which bore her name. This company was established by her in 1884, was composed wholly of women artists, numbered 30 pieces, and was thoroughly organized with brass and wood winds, strings, and tympana. This company was the first ladies' orchestra for professional work in the US; it existed for about ten years.

Cassandra O'Leary worked for many years as a communications professional, marketing communications consultant and PR advisor at organisations including RMIT University when she took up fiction writing. She was working on romantic fiction and romantic comedy novels and entered many writing competitions beginning in 2014. She was a finalist in the 2014 First Kiss contest, Romance Writers of Australia, and the 2015 Lone Star contest, Northwest Houston Romance Writers of America. In 2015, O'Leary won the global We Heart New Talent contest run by HarperCollins UK, and her debut novel, Girl on a Plane, was subsequently published in July 2016 by the digital first imprint, Avon Maze.

There was some debate at the time about the function of literature; that is, whether works of fiction should be representative of life, or more purely imaginative (i.e. natural vs. romantic). The first edition was well received by some reviewers who understood the novel as belonging to medieval fiction, "between 1095, the era of the First Crusade, and 1243, the date of the last", as the first preface states; and some referred to Walpole as an "ingenious translator". Following Walpole's admission of authorship, however, many critics were loath to lavish much praise on the work and dismissed it as absurd, fluffy, romantic fiction, or even unsavory or immoral.

In "The Plague of Lights" (1904), aliens invade the Earth, while in "The Long Night" (1906) the nights gradually lengthen due to the effect on the Earth of a comet. In "Days of Darkness" (1927), London is plunged into inexplicable darkness, throwing the city into chaos. "A Martyr to Wireless" (1924) takes a different approach with the invading force being the new technology of radio broadcasting which threatens marital harmony when it enters the home. Flynn's romantic fiction featured in The Windsor Magazine and included titles such as "Little Love" (1906/07), "They Called it Love" (1909/10), and "A House of Love" (1910).

Veltman's first novel, Strannik (The wanderer, 1831–32), had extraordinary success. Laura Jo McCullough wrote: "The Wanderer is, in a sense, Veltman's artistic manifesto and reflects his debt to both Sterne and Jean Paul."Laura Jo McCullough, review of Veltman, Selected Stories, in Slavic and East European Journal 44 (Spring, 2000), pp. 114-116. Set mainly in Bessarabia, it is "a parodic revival of the travel notes genre, a combination of an imaginary journey taking place on a map in the narrator's study with details derived from a real journey over the same territory some years before."John Mersereau Jr., Russian Romantic Fiction (Ardis, 1983: ), p. 159.

These included "The Hounds of Tindalos" (the first Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos), and "The Space-Eaters" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as its main character). A number of other works by Long can be considered as falling within the Cthulhu Mythos; these include "The Brain Eaters" and "The Malignant Invader", as well as such poems as "The Abominable Snowman" and "When Chaugnar Wakes". A later Mythos story, "Dark Awakening", appeared in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. The story betrays the influence of Long's pseudonymous romantic fiction, and the final paragraph was added by the editor at Long's suggestion.

Her other two novels are Two Men (1865) and Temple House (1867). Stoddard was also a prolific writer of short stories, children's tales, poems, essays, travel writing, and journalism pieces. Her work combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth- century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Her most studied work, The Morgesons is set in a small seaport town, and is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy.

City of the Sun is a novel by Juliana Maio, published by Greenleaf Book Group in March 2014. The novel, which blends historical fiction with spy fiction and romantic fiction, is set in Cairo in 1941 during the North Africa Campaign of World War II. Though a work of fiction, it centers around true historical events and "connects the root of much of today's turmoil in the Middle East with the Axis-Allied struggle from control of the Suez Canal, and the early history of the Muslim Brotherhood." The author was born to a Jewish family in Heliopolis, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt. Her family was expelled in 1956 during the Suez Crisis when she was three years old.

Erastes is the pen name of a female author from the United Kingdom, known for writing gay-themed historical and romantic fiction. Erastes initially began writing gay fiction after initially having a start writing slash fiction set in the Harry Potter universe. She was also a director of the Erotic Authors Association (EAA) and the association flourished until 2010 when she handed the EAA over to new management. Her best known works include Frost Fair, a bestselling novella published by Cheyenne Publishing in 2009, and Transgressions, a novel which was released in 2009 by Running Press in their M/M Historical Romance line and was a shortlisted nominee for a 2010 Lambda Literary Award in the Gay Romance category.

The change to the next phase of his work was, according to him, a shift from "anti-art" to "anti-anti-art", which accepted the result of the first phase: "that reality can not be described", but that one may attempt to build a meaningful literature from a relativistic stance. The project was now to show how "lower" genres (such as crime fiction, romantic fiction and science fiction) could be a mosaic of equal truths that make up reality. This change is also a change from modernist literature to postmodern literature. The third phase of Madsen's work comprises some novels that are less abstract and more realistic than his earlier works, but are still highly imaginative.

Mariah Stewart is an author of romantic fiction whose titles have appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers lists. Stewart's books have won, or been nominated for, various major awards, including three-time recipient of the New Jersey Romance Writers' (NJRW) Golden Leaf Awards for The President's Daughter (Best Single Title Romance 2002),Official website Voices Carry (Best Single Title Romance 2001), and for her very first novel, Moments in Time (Best Contemporary Novel 1998).Simon & Schuster: Mariah Stewart NJRW also awarded Stewart a Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted her into their Hall of Fame.Source: Found in Stewart's biography on many big bookseller sites, including Barnes and Noble , Random House and Amazon.

Warton probably began researching the History in the 1750s, but did not actually begin writing in earnest until 1769. He conceived of his work as tracing "the transitions from barbarism to civility" in English poetry, but alongside this view of progress went a Romantic love of medieval poetry for its own sake. The first volume, published in 1774 with a second edition the following year, is prefaced with two dissertations: one on "The Origin of Romantic Fiction in Europe", which he believed to lie in the Islamic world, and the other on "The Introduction of Learning into England", which deals with the revival of interest in Classical literature. Then begins the History proper.

The surprising impact that romantic novels have on our work" in the Journal of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care published by the BMJ Group. In the paper, Quilliam writes "what we see in our [family planning clinic] consulting rooms is more likely to be informed by Mills & Boon than by the Family Planning Association." Quilliam argues that a correlation exists between negative attitudes toward the use of condoms and reading of romantic fiction; as well as citing a survey that shows only 11.5 per cent of romantic novels mention condom use. She suggests that a romance reader may "not [use] protection with a new man because she wants to be swept up by the moment as a heroine would.

Richard Arthur Northwood Bonnycastle (born September 26, 1934 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) He is a Canadian businessman who is the former owner and publisher of Harlequin Enterprises (Harlequin Enterprises was founded in 1949 by his father Richard H. G. Bonnycastle) the world's largest publisher of romantic fiction and an owner of Thoroughbred racehorses Harlequin Ranches. He is part of the Bonnycastle family founded in Canada by British military officer, Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle. Dick Bonnycastle was educated at Ravenscourt School, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1956 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. After graduation he worked for the Great West Life Assurance Company and subsequently, Richardson Securities of Canada as a Corporate Underwriter.

The prestige of the Attic literature remained undiminished until the 7th century AD, but in the following two centuries when the existence of the Byzantine Empire was threatened, city life and education declined, and along with them the use of the classicizing language and style. The political recovery of the 9th century instigated a literary revival, in which a conscious attempt was made to recreate the Hellenic-Christian literary culture of late antiquity. Simple or popular Greek was avoided in literary use and many of the early saints' lives were rewritten in an archaizing style. By the 12th century the cultural confidence of the Byzantine Greeks led them to develop new literary genres, such as romantic fiction, in which adventure and love are the main elements.

In later romances, particularly those of French origin, there is a marked tendency to emphasize themes of courtly love, such as faithfulness in adversity. From c. 1760 – usually cited as 1764 at the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto – the connotations of "romance" moved from fantastic and eerie, somewhat Gothic adventure narratives of novelists like Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance (1790) or The Romance of the Forest (1791) with erotic content to novels centered on the episodic development of a courtship that ends in marriage. With a female protagonist, during the rise of Romanticism the depiction of the course of such a courtship within contemporary conventions of realism, the female equivalent of the "novel of education", informs much Romantic fiction.

Halperin (1985), 721 Five days later in another letter, Austen wrote that she expected an "offer" from her "friend" and that "I shall refuse him, however, unless he promises to give away his white coat", going on to write "I will confide myself in the future to Mr Tom Lefroy, for whom I don't give a sixpence" and refuse all others. The next day, Austen wrote: "The day will come on which I flirt my last with Tom Lefroy and when you receive this it will be all over. My tears flow as I write at this melancholy idea". Halperin cautioned that Austen often satirised popular sentimental romantic fiction in her letters, and some of the statements about Lefroy may have been ironic.

Two of her novels, Substitute Wife and The Pregnant Princess, have been number one on the Waldenbooks bestsellers list, while several other novels have placed on the USAToday extended bestseller list. Her June 2001 release, A Most Desirable M.D., was described by Romantic Times Magazine as a "delicious love story with scorching scenes, two lovable characters, and brilliant story and character development," and was nominated for their award for 2001 Best Silhouette Desire. Winston is a member of the Romance Writers of America and of Novelists, Inc.. She has served as both vice-president and retreat chairman of the Washington Romance Writers, receiving their Magic Crystal Award for outstanding service to the chapter. In 1998, she was chosen to represent contemporary series romantic fiction at a Smithsonian Institution Writing Seminar.

Glyn pioneered risqué, and sometimes erotic, romantic fiction aimed at a female readership, a radical idea for its time—though her writing is not scandalous by modern standards. She coined the use of the word it to mean a characteristic that "...draws all others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction."Elinor Glyn (1927) "It", Paramount Pictures Her use of the word is often erroneously taken to be a euphemism for sexuality or sex appeal. In 1919 she signed a contract with William Randolph Hearst's International Magazine Company for stories and articles that included a clause for the motion picture rights.

She published her first novels in 1953. She signed her romantic fiction as Vivian Stuart, one of her married names, and under the pen names of Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay and Robyn Stuart, while for her military sagas, "Alexander Sheridan Saga" and "Phillip Hazard Saga" she used the name V.A. Stuart, and William Stuart Long was her pen name for the popular historical series: "Australians", based on her research at The Mitchell Library Sydney; The National Maritime Museum; British Public Records Office and the New York Public Library. Many of her romance novels were protagonized by doctors or nurses, and set in Asia, Australia or other places she had visited. Her novel, "Gay Cavalier" (1955 as Alex Stuart) caused trouble between Vivian and her Mills & Boon editors.

After being introduced by a college friend in 1965 to the producers of Take 30—an afternoon variety show run by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)—Clarkson was hired by the Crown corporation as a freelance book reviewer. This marked the start of her nearly 30-year career with the CBC, as, after less than a year in her initial position, Clarkson was promoted to co-host, thus becoming one of the first members of a visible minority to obtain a prominent position on Canadian television. She remained with Take 30 for a decade, while also branching into print journalism by becoming a regular contributor to such publications as Maclean's and Chatelaine. Similarly, Clarkson wrote and published her own romantic fiction novels: A Lover More Condoling in 1968, and Hunger Trace in 1970.

One of the characters speculates that the Earth is revenging itself on humanity, but at the end of the book the mystery has not been solved and the destruction has not stopped. Tessier's next book was The Nightwalker (1979), the brief, terse story of a young American Vietnam veteran adrift in London who seems possessed by an uncontrollable urge to inflict mutilation and death and may, in fact, be a werewolf. In Shockwaves (1982), a young woman achieves an ambition out of romantic fiction when an up- and-coming lawyer asks her to marry him; but her life is overshadowed by the presence of an apparently supernatural murderer known only as The Blade. Phantom (1982) deals with a young boy's confrontations with death, starting with his mother's dangerous asthma attack and ending with a disturbing vision of the afterlife.

This includes works which were actually written between 1811 and 1820, during the Regency era, which is well known for romantic fiction, including the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, Susan Ferrier, Maria Edgeworth, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Jane Austen, who is perhaps the best-known author from this period, with many of her novels having been adapted into film in recent years. All of these writers published most of their best-known works during this period. While not novelists, the poetry of writers such as Lord Byron, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and John Keats are worth mentioning, as most of their best-known works were also written during the Regency. Many of these classic Regency writers are also associated with Romanticism, which is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Western Europe in the late 18th century.

However, according to the entry in the probate registry, James Cartland, the proprietor of a brass foundry, left an estate of £92,000, suggesting that Barbara Cartland's version of events is to a degree fanciful. This was followed soon afterward by her father's death in Berry-au-Bac in World War I. However, Cartland's mother opened a London dry goods store to make ends meet, and to raise Cartland and her two brothers, both of whom were eventually killed in battle in 1940. Cartland was educated at private girls' schools: The Alice Ottley School, Malvern Girls' College, and Abbey House, an educational institution in Hampshire. Cartland became successful as a society reporter after 1922, and a writer of romantic fiction; she stated she was inspired in her early work by the novels of Edwardian author Elinor Glyn, whom she idolised and eventually befriended.

French Romantic poets of the 1830s to 1850s include Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine and the flamboyant Théophile Gautier, whose prolific output in various forms continued until his death in 1872. Stendhal is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, but he stands in a complex relation with Romanticism, and is notable for his penetrating psychological insight into his characters and his realism, qualities rarely prominent in Romantic fiction. As a survivor of the French retreat from Moscow in 1812, fantasies of heroism and adventure had little appeal for him, and like Goya he is often seen as a forerunner of Realism. His most important works are Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black, 1830) and La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma, 1839).

She experienced at the same time a change of views in regard to the propriety of that branch of literature which she had adopted -romantic fiction- and finally, after a few more efforts, some of which were never published, she resolved to end writing in this form, though it had been her favorite pursuit. In 1841, appeared the "Rencontre", a short story, embracing revolutionary incidents. Of this story, Mr. Thompson, the editor of the Augusta Mirror, remarked as follows:—“The ‘Rencontre’ is of that class of literary productions which we prize above all other orders of fiction. Illustrative as it is of our own history, descriptive of our own peculiar scenery, and abounding in sound reflections and truly elevated sentiment, we hold it worth volumes of the mawkish romance and sickly sentimentality which has of late become a merchantable commodity with a great portion of the literary world.” About this time appeared also some smaller pieces, both in prose and verse.

Abelard Snazz ends up in an immigration-authority queue where people who have fallen into black holes are processed. When Snazz informs the official that his previous occupation was being employed by the people of Farbus as the “Great God Toglub,” he is dispatched to the “Bide-a-Wee-Twilight Dimension for Disinherited Deities.” There, Snazz encounters a collection of ancient gods (mostly from Greek mythology) who have lost their power because no one believes in them anymore. Snazz appoints himself the gods’ new manager, and begins a massive promotional campaign to rebrand the gods and bring them up to date, making himself rich in the process. Snazz brings the “Gods Revival’” to Ursa Minor, where he introduces to the inhabitants the gods’ new roles, including Ares as the God of Space Invaders Machines, Demeter as the Goddess of Health Food Stores, Apollo as the Disco God, and Eros as the God of Popular Romantic Fiction.

Between 1912 and 1923 it published numerous adventure titles by Jack London. In its early years the company also published "educational textbooks, socialist tracts and Shakespeare" as well as "travel guides, children’s and craft books".A fine romance: a history of Mills & Boon, reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2018. It was not until the 1930s that the company began to concentrate specifically on romances. The company was purchased on 1 October 1971, by Harlequin Enterprises of Canada, their North American distributor. From the very beginning, Mills & Boon published in a form and at a price that was within the reach of a wide readership. In the 1930s the company noted the rapid rise of commercial libraries and the growing appetite for escapism during the Depression years. Historian Ross McKibbin has argued that 'it was the rapid growth of the ‘tuppenny libraries’ in the interwar years which transformed Mills and Boon into a firm which exclusively published romantic fiction.

In the same year, through a joint venture with Canada's Harlequin Enterprises, the romantic fiction book series Harmony began to be published in Italy. The company has been controlled by Fininvest, Silvio Berlusconi's family holding company since 1991. Marina Berlusconi is the chairman. In 1989, Mondadori expanded into Mexico by acquiring Editorial Grijalbo. Beginning in 2001, Mondadori operated a joint venture with Random House in Spanish-speaking countries. Random House bought out Mondadori's stake in 2012. In 2006, Mondadori took a big step forward in its international expansion with the acquisition of Emap France, one of France's leading magazine publishers, today Mondadori France. Mondadori was one of the first Italian publishers to enter the e-book market and in 2000 an agreement was signed with Microsoft Corporation for the creation of the first Italian site for the sale of electronic books. In 2010 Mondadori accelerated its presence: in June, the Group’s online bookstore launched a store dedicated to digital books, with a vast catalogue of titles in Italian and English. In December, Mondadori reached an agreement for the international distribution of books produced by the Group’s publishing houses on Google Books and Google eBooks.