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Juanita Savage

A little-known British romance novelist of the 1920s, she wrote intense, dramatic love stories with a strong pulp-era flavor. Her work also brushed against adventure and early speculative fiction, especially in the lost-world novel The City of Desire.

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Bandit Love

Bandit Love

by Juanita Savage

About the author

Juanita Savage was a UK author whose books appeared in the 1920s. Reliable biographical details are scarce, but reference sources describe her primarily as a writer of romances, some of them notably vivid and melodramatic for their era.

She is best remembered today for titles such as Bandit Love, Passion Island, Don Lorenzo's Bride, The Spaniard, and Southern Glamour. Her novel The City of Desire (1926) stands out because it blends romance with a lost-race adventure, which is why it is noted by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

Because so little personal information seems to be firmly documented online, her profile survives mostly through her books rather than through a well-recorded life story. That air of mystery, along with the heightened emotion of her fiction, gives her work a distinctive old-fashioned charm for readers who enjoy rediscovered popular novels.