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Juanita Savage
Best known for dramatic romances set in Spain and other exotic locales, this early 20th-century novelist also ventured into fantasy with a lost-world adventure that caught the attention of science-fiction bibliographers. Her books promise high emotion, danger, and old-school escapism.
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Bandit Love
by Juanita Savage
About the author
Juanita Savage was a British novelist whose romances appeared mainly in the 1920s and 1930s. Modern bibliographic sources consistently connect her with a run of passionately plotted popular novels, including The Spaniard, Bandit Love, Passion Island, and Don Lorenzo's Bride.
She is especially interesting because her work crossed genres. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes her novel The City of Desire as a lost-race fantasy, showing that alongside her romantic fiction she also wrote at least one book with speculative elements.
Reliable biographical detail about her life appears to be scarce online, so a full personal profile is hard to confirm. What does come through clearly is her niche: vivid, melodramatic fiction written for readers who enjoyed adventure, romance, and faraway settings.