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
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.