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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