Content note: This article discusses sexual violence and abuse in the context of romance novels. In the first book of Amelia Wilde’s Beast of Bishop’s…
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1. Introduction: Black British Chick Lit? Candice Carty-Williams’s best-selling debut novel Queenie (2019) has been marketed and reviewed as the story of a Black Bridget…
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Comments closedDuring a career that spanned the years 1921 to her death in 1974, British author Georgette Heyer wrote fifty-six novels and achieved enviable fame and…
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