Watching a Masterpiece Theatre adaptation of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey started my ponderings on the history of Romance novels. Of course in Jane Austen’s novel the young heroin is reading Udolpho a Gothic Romance by Ann Radcliffe published in 1794. Upon researching the subject I discovered previous to Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Richardson wrote a novel [...]
I fell in love with Romance novels when I was a teenager. Connie Mason introduced me to a world of strong, handsome men tortured by life’s cruelty, and the strong, beautiful women who loved them, and made them whole again. Over time I developed certain criteria for what I looked for in a story. First [...]
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