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Number Title Author Date Citations # 3025: Arafura Pirate: Victoria Gordon: January 1990 [1]# 3026: Game Plan: Rosemary Hammond: January 1990 # 3027: Spell Of The Mountains
Number Title Author Date Citations # 2305: The Man on the Peak: Katrina Britt: January 1980 [1]# 2306: The Bending Reed: Elizabeth Dawson: January 1980 # 2307
The list includes more unusual publications, such as The Pocket Purity Cook Book and Livre de cuisine Purity: petit format, which featured Purity Flour Mills publications in a smaller size. #71, titled Bouquet Knitter's Guide, is another early example of Harlequin publishing a non-romance title under their Harlequin Romance brand.
In 2001, historical romance reached a 10-year high as 778 were published. By 2004, that number had dropped to 486, which was still 20% of all romance novels published. Kensington Books claims that they are receiving fewer submissions of historical novels, and that their previously published authors are switiching to contemporary. [24] [25]
An early American example of a mass-market romance was Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' The Flame and the Flower (1972), published by Avon Books. [5] This was the first single-title romance novel to be published as an original paperback in the US. [5] Nancy Coffey was the senior editor who negotiated a multi-book deal with Woodiwiss. [5]
Mills & Boon was founded by former employees of the Methuen publishing house, [2] Gerald Rusgrove Mills (3 January 1877 [3] – 23 September 1928) and Charles Boon (9 May 1877 – 2 December 1943) in 1908 as a general fiction publisher, although their first book was a romance.
The annual almanac Poor Richard's Almanack is first published, written by Benjamin Franklin. The London Magazine is first published, the second oldest literary periodical; Alciphron by George Berkeley; The Mock Doctor by Henry Fielding; The Triumph of Love by Pierre de Marivaux; Zaïre by Voltaire
Victorian People and Ideas: A Companion for the Modern Reader of Victorian Literature. (1974) online free; Felluga, Dino Franco, et al. The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (2015). Flint, Kay. The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature (2014). Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991) Purchase, Sean.