![]() ![]() The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, because the word "romance", and the associated word "romantic", have a number of different meanings. It is also a genre of mass-market fiction, which is related to the broader romantic love genre. ![]() ![]() Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published, and a notable recent example is Wolf Hall (2009), a multi-award winning novel by English historical novelist Hilary Mantel. Walter Scott helped popularise this genre in the early 19th-century, with works such as Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past. ![]()
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