![]() ![]() LaVyrle Spencer, whose first book was published in 1979: I bought “The Flame and the Flower” with $2 that my mother sent me in a birthday card. And a heroine could have sex and not die at the end of the story. The explicit sexuality in the books allowed women to express their own sexuality. ![]() At first, they were mostly big historical romances, followed by slimmer romances, which were published sequentially.Īuthor Loretta Chase: I feel strongly that the women who were first writing, like Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers - it was a tremendous breakthrough, what they did. (Avon) ‘A tremendous breakthrough’Įarly romance novels were sold at grocery stores and drugstores - they were by women, for women and about women, available where women shopped. “The Flame and the Flower” by Kathleen Woodiwiss came out in 1972.
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