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Third, I have focused on romances whose plots develop entirely or nearly so in America, or, if they do not, they are nonetheless intrinsically related to U.S. history. For these reasons, Janet Whitney’s The Quaker Bride (1953) has been rejected, as, despite its appealing title, it is more a Gothic novel of suspense set in the mid-nineteenth century than a romance, and besides most of the plot takes place in England; a well-known Quaker romance, Laura Kinsale’s 1992 Flowers from the Storm,ssss1 has also been left aside, given that it is set in England during the Regency period; the first two volumes of Ann Turnbull’s Quaker trilogy have likewise been discarded, as they take place in England, whereas the third volume, Seeking Eden (2012c), which carries the protagonists to the colony of Pennsylvania, has been included.ssss1 To give but one more example of the consequences of applying the previously given criteria, I should point out that the three volumes of Anna Schmidt’s The Peacemakers trilogy (2013-2014) have been chosen, because, although only the third one takes place in the U.S., the other two are dominated by WWII events whose importance for U.S. history is obvious.