Judith McNaught’s Whitney My Love
When I was putting together the Romancelandia Glossary, “wall banger” was one of the terms that was new to me. My mother, who worked in a library while pregnant with …
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Author Interviews from the Romance MFA Syllabus: E.M. Hull
Who was the woman behind The Sheik? Interviews with E.M. Hull are hard to come by. Billie Melman writes in the 1988 book Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties: Flappers …
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My next reading in Angelique, which came out in the 1960s. Nearly every edition shows the heroine falling out of her dress in a most scandalous fashion, so I’m expecting …
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Rereading Anne McCaffery’s Killashandra
Between sick and travel last week, I’m not ready to discuss Desiree yet. However, I did use my sick day to reread Anne McCaffrey’s Killashandra. The book was a high …
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Kathleen Winsor’s Forever Amber: a sexually liberated heroine
A country maid sleeps her way to duchess status, but never manages to attain a happy ever after with her favorite lover. Book details Title: Forever Amber Author: Kathleen Winsor Original publication …
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Rereading Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword
I’ve unfortunately been ill yet again. This time I used my bedrest on The Blue Sword, an adolescent fantasy of a warrior woman who gets magical gifts, a great horse, …
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Romance Tropes in the Sheik
For a novel that’s discussed as a foundation of the genre, The Sheik must be full of common romance tropes, right? Of course it is — just as this post …
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EM Hull’s The Sheik
Dukes in the Desert! Let’s take a look at The Sheik, E.M. Hull’s scandalous tale of exotic passion and Stockholm syndrome. Book details: Title: The Sheik Author: E.M. Hull Original …
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