Important influences on steampunk are the Victorian "scientific romances", the first science fiction novels.

But Shakespearean romance is hardly synonymous with Ms. Akalaitis's Victorian romance.

William Harrison Ainsworth's Victorian romance of Windsor Castle featured Herne and popularised him.

The book's plot is similar to that of a Victorian romance, with the obvious difference that the protagonists are not human beings but dragons.

Byatt is a wonderful, well-researched author, who won the 1990 Booker Prize for her Victorian romance, "Possession."

Others lauded Hughes for contradicting the Victorian romances of childhood by portraying the children without emotional reduction.

"Lorna Doone" (1922) is an adaptation of the popular Victorian romance by R.D. Blackmore.

Hot-air balloons have a built-in Victorian romance to them, but they also entail special planning.

Here is the man who invented nostalgia dressing for American women, making them long for his vision of the West, Victorian romance and the real rich.