Historical Romance

Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. Walter Scott helped popularise this genre in the early 19th-century, with works such as Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published, and a notable recent example is Wolf Hall (2009), a multi-award winning novel by English historical novelist Hilary Mantel. It is also a genre of mass-market fiction, which is related to the broader romantic love genre.

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A Perfect Hand
The Last Lady B
The Duke's Bargain (Proper Romance Regency)
How to Lose a Laird (Cairncross Castle)
Miss Beth Bettencourt: A Bynum, Georgia Novel
The Dove and the Rogue (The Doves of New York, #3)
How to Fake It in Society
The Antiquarian's Object of Desire (Love's Academic, #3)
The Duke
The Unruly Heart of Miss Darcy
The Manhattan Confessions (On Central Park #3)
In Pursuit of Civility (Merriweather Academy for Young Ladies, #2)
The Life She Forgot (The House on the Edge of the Cliff, #1)
A Murder in Marylebone (Minnie Harper, #2)
The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 8
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In the Great Quiet
To Dance with a Duke (Dollar Princess Series Book 2)
La portalettere
Tea & Alchemy
The Women of Arlington Hall
The Hidden Girl
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time, #5)
Into a Golden Era (Timeless, #7)
A Ghastly Catastrophe (Veronica Speedwell, #10)
All Our Beautiful Goodbyes
The Antiquarian's Object of Desire (Love's Academic, #3)
An American Beauty
In This Moment (Timeless, #2)
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The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1)
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Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)
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An Offer From a Gentleman (Bridgertons, #3)
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers, #1)
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It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers, #2)
To Sir Phillip, With Love (Bridgertons, #5)
When He Was Wicked (Bridgertons, #6)
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