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Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900

Author
Bloom, Clive
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Location
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Publication year
2002
Link
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CpKFDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&…
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79154-4
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79154-4
Comment

Most of this book is made up of short outlines of authors' careers. I've included the romance authors and most of those which are romance-adjacent. The links are to the more recent (2008) second edition and most recent (2021) editions.

Topic
UK
readers
Publishing
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Florence Barclay
Marie Corelli
Charles Garvice
Elinor Glyn
Baroness Orczy
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi
Berta Ruck
Ethel M. Dell
Ruby M. Ayres
Jeffrey Farnol
E. M. Hull
Rafael Sabatini
Daphne du Maurier
Georgette Heyer
Margaret Mitchell
Mary Renault
Jackie Collins
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Cartland
Catherine Cookson
Charlotte Lamb
Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney
M. M. Kaye
Colleen McCullough
Danielle Steel
Phyllis A. Whitney

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