Love in the Library at Indiana University

Get to the exhibit before February 15

I highly recommend attending the Love in the Library exhibit at Indiana University’s Lilly Library. Learn more about the exhibit through The Romance Novel in English by Rebecca Romney. But if you’re not able to get there in person by February 15, take this virtual walkthrough with me!

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💃 Love in the Library

jane austen books
before austen what romance books existed
a close up of gold jane austen books
the historical romance exhibit
a close up of different historical romance novels
romance wars of different publishers waring over romance
barbara courtland board game
a close up of different publishers
outlander by diana
new romance novels with clinch poses
supernatural romance including interview with a vampire
supernatural romance including interview with a vampire
young adult romance books
young adult romance books
Historical romance presents a difficult dilemma for a genre with the requirement that characters find their "happily ever after." Through much of human history, there could be no happy ending for many marginalized people: those who were enslaved, those who were violently colonized, those who were imprisoned or killed for loving someone of the same sex, those whose lives and loves were constrained by poverty, prejudice, servitude, and hardship. Traditionally, historical romances have featured only privileged white heterosexual characters. Recently, authors have begun to reimagine the historical romance to provide happy endings for a much wider range of characters, for although the lives of many marginalized people have never been easy, that does not mean that they couldn't and didn't find love. Today's diverse romance readers are embracing the incredibly liberating and exhilarating feeling of being able to see themselves in histories from which they have been far too often erased.
images of erotic romance books

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🥰 Free Books

The Hooker and the Hermit by Penny Reid and L.H. Cosway

Wasted Love with You by Whitney G.

Boyfriend Bargain by Ilsa Madden-Mills

The Werewoman and Her Witch by Aunt Georgia Lee

The Poison Paradox by Hadley Field

The Shattered Court by M.J. Scott

Small Town Magic by Laina Turner

Frosty Cheer by Kristen Fray

My Fiance’s Dad by S.E. Law

Her Viking Saviour by Steffy Smith

Kidnapped at Christmas by Samantha Holt

Her Sanctuary by Toni Anderson

The Proposal by Adriana Locke

Logan by Liz Gavin

Thor’s Unexpected Mate by Blake R. Wolfe

Lilly by Jovie Grace

A Hint of Dark by Jen Yates

The Lass He Left Behind by Jayne Castel

Stranded in the Snow by Noelle Adams

Ask Cassandra by Kate Healey

A Bent Creek Christmas by Catie Cahill

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