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How romantic novels boomed in the Depression
Scottish Sunday Express
|December 28, 2025
MILLS & BOON was founded by former employees of the Methuen publishing house, Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon, in 1908 as a general fiction publisher.
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It was not until the 1930s that the company began to focus on romances as there was a growing appetite for escapism during the Depression years.
The 1930s saw the rise of the tuppenny library, where readers could borrow books for a flat fee of two pence.
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