![]() ![]() Riley, a psychiatric nurse from New England, began writing after she retired from a 40-year career. West, the mulatto woman who was a Texian spy The book is based on the legendary Emily D. Bunkley self-published her first novel, a historical romance titled Emily, The Yellow Rose of Texas. Historical romances with Black main characters wouldn’t see mainstream release until over a decade later. The first mainstream category romance with African American protagonists was Dell Candlelight’s Entwined Destinies by Rosalind Welles in 1980. ![]() ![]() The 1990s would introduce stories set in the past that told love stories from the point of view the industry had largely ignored. The historical romance novel has seen constant transformations in the stories it tells. A Look Back at the Black Historical Romance Boom of the 1990s ![]()
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