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Romance fiction

Here are entered works of fiction that revolve around a central romantic relationship. Works of fiction that depict love, but do not revolve around a central romantic relationship, are entered under Love -- Fiction. Works of fiction belonging to the Romance languages group are entered under Romance-language fiction. Collections of medieval metrical romances (general and French) and their prose versions are entered under Romances. Collections of medieval metrical romances in one language other than French are qualified by language, e.g., Romances, English.

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• Fiction

• Romance fiction -- Authorship
• Romance fiction -- Periodicals
• Romance fiction, American
• Romance fiction, English
• Romance fiction, French
• Romance fiction, German
• Romance fiction, Greek

• Love stories
• Romances (Love stories)
• Romantic fiction
• Romantic stories
• Romance novel

• Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Her Father's Daughter (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jerry (London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, c1907), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Jerry Junior (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Louisa: or, The Cottage on the Moor (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787), by Elizabeth Helme
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Mavis of Green Hill (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1921), by Faith Baldwin (Gutenberg text)
• The Pale Blonde of Sands Street (New York: Viking Press, 1946), by William Chapman White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel, by Sarah Green (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• Sweetheart Stories (partial serial archives)
• Breezy Stories (partial serial archives)
• Love Story Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Ranch Romances (partial serial archives)
• Dream World (1920s-1930 romance magazine) (partial serial archives)

• Romance (Ridgway magazine, 1919-1929) (partial serial archives)

• Middle Aged Love Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Josephine Daskam Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tattle-Tales of Cupid (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Paul Leicester Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Studies in Love and in Terror (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, c1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Love and in Terror (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Romance Novel in English: A Rare Book Survey, 1769-1999 (2021), by Rebecca Romney (PDF at typepunchmatrix.com)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2010), by John Griffith Urang (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe (London: Printed by T. Creede, for W. Mattes, 1597), by Achilles Tatius, trans. by William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Xenophon's Ephesian History: or, The Love-Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia (based on multiple editions of this translation), by Xenophon of Ephesus, trans. by John Rooke (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus, and Achilles Tatius: Comprising The Ethiopics, or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The Pastoral Amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and The Loves of Clitopho and Leucippe (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1889), by Heliodorus of Emesa, Longus, and Achilles Tatius, ed. by Rowland Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.