Does anyone know of a good romance writer that sets their stories in the late 1800's or the early 1900's? I know Sandra Brown has a few that are set in this time and I'm looking for something close to her style of writing. If you don't know any specific writers then maybe some specific books.
2007-09-12 06:27:49 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm not really looking along the "classic" line. If you've ever read Sandra Brown then you know what I'm talking about. It's more the hot and steamy kind.
2007-09-12 07:10:16 · update #1
As far as romance writers go, you should try Julie Garwood who is a very good writer and sets a lot of her stories in the mid to late 1800s. I really liked her book called Prince Charming.
Catherine Coulter has quite a few books that take place in the 1800s. In general she's a very good writer.
It's not exactly a romance, but The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason takes place in the late 1800s.
The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett is set in the late 1800s/early 1900s and is excellent. Frances Hodgson Burnett has several other novels set in this time period that are really good.
The Citadel by A. J. Cronin, though a medical drama, has some elements of romance and is set in the early 1900s.
Jude Deveraux is a really good romance fiction writer who has quite a few books that are set in the 1800s and also the early 1900s.
Dorothy Garlock has many books set in either the latter 1800s or early 1900s...most in the American west.
Grace Livingston Hill was a Christian romance writer whose stories centered, usually, around the early 1900s.
Jean Marsh's The House of Eliott is a romance set in the early 1900s (about a fashion house).
Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds is a romance set in the early 1900s in Australia...very good.
Linda Lael Miller has quite a few romances set in either the late 1800s or early 1900s.
LaVyrle Spencer wrote a few books that were either set in the 1800s or early 1900s.
Jodi Thomas has a romance called Cherish the Dream that's set in the early 1900s (though I'm more partial to her Texas series of books that are set in the mid to late 1800s).
The Trembling Hills by Phyllis A. Whitney is a wonderful romantic suspense book set in the early 1900s (San Francisco earth quake 1906).
2007-09-12 07:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by ck1 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My mother reads the hot and steamy kind hah.
Her favorite has always been Julie Garwood, and I have read her book Prince Charming and I found it to be quite amazing! She has many books that are set in that time slot (aka Historical Romance).
Other authors that write in that genre:
Jude Deveraux (another of my moms favorite)
Elizabeth Sinclair
Diane Whiteside
Millie Criswell
Linda Francis Lee
And there are a whole lot more here:
These are books from the time period 1860-1920
http://historicalromancewriters.com/timeperiods.cfm?genreID=15
2007-09-12 09:34:45 · answer #2 · answered by awesomeredhead 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are two sites that are excellent:
www.allromancewriters.com
www.historicalromancewriters.com
You can go on these sites and browse by time period....it is an excellent assortment.
If you like the depression era this is an excellent series all by Dorothy Garlock:
A Week From Sunday Will You Still be Mine
With Heart
With Hope
With Song
After The Parade...I have read all of these and they are excellent. Happy Reading!
2007-09-12 07:51:44 · answer #3 · answered by deb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-04 10:56:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catherine Cookson might do a few. She wrote modern books and older ones.
I think something like The Golden Straw might be early last century.
2007-09-12 06:38:18 · answer #5 · answered by True Blue Brit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, etc. The classics are great; look into them.
Check out the 50-cent harlequin romances at Wal-Mart.
2007-09-12 06:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by Leah 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋