Introduction / Jean Radford -- The Greek romance / Margaret Williamson -- The politics of seduction in English popular culture, 1748-1848 / Anna Clark -- How green was my valley / Derrick Price -- An inverted romance / Jean Radford -- Gone with the wind / Helen Taylor -- Writing fictions / Alison Light -- Family romances / Christine Bridgwood -- Mills & Boon meets feminism / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Write, she said / Michele Roberts.