Facts about Historical Romance

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   Avon Books played a pivotal role in popularizing historical romance as a mass-market category beginning in the 1970s with its influential romance publishing program.

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   Scotland is the second most popular historical setting in the genre, with kilted Highland heroes becoming a beloved romance trope.

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   The Regency period (1811–1820) is the most popular historical setting for the genre, inspiring countless novels set among the English aristocracy.

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   Georgette Heyer is widely credited with establishing the modern historical romance genre through her Regency-era novels published from the 1920s onward.

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   Historical romance is one of the bestselling subgenres in popular fiction, consistently ranking among the top categories in romance novel sales.

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