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The Romance novel didn't begin with Kathleen Woodiwiss or even with the Bronte sisters. By the time Heliodorus wrote his Aethiopica--or Ethiopian Romance--in the third century, the genre was already impressively developed.
" ... and lives there the man of so iron and adamantine an heart, as not to be enchanted with listening to the love of Theagenes and Chariclea, though the story were to last a year?"
An Ethiopian Romance | 
