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Originally Posted by Blossom
Jane Austen is Traditional Regency.
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A misnomer. "Regency" novels refer to historical novels. Austen didn't write historical novels - her novels are contemporary to their time of writing.
You say in a previous post that Harlequin "invented" the romance genre. I would respectfully suggest that the British publisher Mills and Boon, who long, long predated Harlequin, actually did that. (Yes, I know that Harlequin now own M&B!) M&B started specialising in women's romance novels in the 1930s; Harlequin didn't start doing so until the mid 1950s.