The romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market literary genre.
 Novels of this type of genre fiction place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending."
 There are many subgenres of the romance novel including fantasy, historical romance, paranormal fiction, and science fiction.
 Walter Scott defined the literary fiction form of romance as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents".
Kathryn Elizabeth Bouse Le Veque Hogan is an American USA Today bestselling independent author of Historical Romance fiction novels.
 She is the author of over 60 historical romance novels, as well as ten contemporary romance novels.
 She is most known for writing "The Dark One: Dark Knight", "Rise of the Defender", "The Wolfe", "The Savage Curtain", and "Island of Glass".
Terri Brisbin is an American historical romance author and a registered dental hygienist in Southern New Jersey.
 Brisbin has been writing romance fiction since 1995 and has sold more than 1.6 million copies of her historical and paranormal romance novels, novellas and short stories in 15 languages since 1998.
 She is also a member of Romance Writers of America, New Jersey and the Valley Forge local chapters.
Patricia Valeria Bannister, (born November 21, 1923 in London, England; died November 18, 2009 in Bellevue, Washington, USA) was a writer of historical romance fiction from 1978 until 2002.
 She wrote under the names Patricia Veryan and Gwyneth Moore.
Leslie Perri (died 1970) was the pen name of Doris Marie Claire "Doë" Baumgardt, an American science fiction fan, writer, and illustrator.
 She was a member of the Futurians, the influential science fiction fan club.
 Through her Futurian connections, she also edited minor romance fiction magazines.
 Baumgardt was married to two fellow science fiction writers and Futurians, first to Frederik Pohl, later to Richard Wilson.
 She was also married to Thomas Llewellyn Owens, an American painter.
 She had two children, Margot Owens, with Owens, and Richard David Wilson with Wilson.
 She became a reporter and journalist while married to Wilson.
 Wilson was, at the time, the bureau chief for the Reuters wire service in New York City.
 He left Reuters and went on to Syracuse University, where he founded a science fiction works collection said to be one of the most important in the world.
 Her grandson, Dirk Llewellyn van der Meulen, is named for "Dirk Wylie" (Harry Dockweiler) the science fiction poet and member of the Futurians.
Metahistorical Romance is a term describing postmodern historical fiction, defined by Amy J. Elias in "Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction."
 Elias defines metahistorical romance as a form of historical fiction continuing the legacy of historical romance inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott but also having ties to contemporary postmodern historiography.
 In particular, in metahistorical romance, poststructuralist play invokes the "historical sublime" as defined in the work of Hayden White.
 Metahistorical romance--such as Thomas Pynchon's novel "Mason & Dixon"--attempts to recuperate the sublime untouchability of the past, to reach History and know it, but paradoxically in the context of the political.
 As with the Kantian sublime, the postmodern historical sublime is not the grasp of the sublime object itself but a kind of ironic awareness of the inaccessibility of the sublime object.
 There is a yearning that resembles the yearning for mystical knowledge at the core of the search for the historical sublime, and thus the concept ties contemporary historical fiction to a literary history (that of the historical novel), a type of historiography (postmodern, post-"Annales" historiography), and a spiritual questing.
 Elias argues that the postmodern imagination confronts the historical sublime rather than represses it; confronts it as repetition and deferral; seeks sublime History but simultaneously has lost faith in the storytelling needed to do so; and consequently has ties to, but reverses the dominant of, the traditional Anglo-American historical novel.
 The term "metahistorical romance" also builds upon work by Linda Hutcheon, whose term "historiographic metafiction" described the ironic stance of contemporary historical fiction.
Hannah Fielding is an award-winning contemporary Romance fiction writer.
 Her second book, "The Echoes of Love", won a 2014 Gold IPPY Award for Romance and the Silver Medal for Romance at the 2014 Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book Awards.
 Her third novel, "Indiscretion", was named the Gold Winner in the Fiction: Romance Category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards.
 It also won Gold at the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Awards.
 "Indiscretion" is the first novel in the "Andalucian Nights Trilogy".
 The second part, "Masquerade", was published in 2015 as well, and the third part, "Legacy" was published in summer 2016.
A Company of Swans is a historical romance novel published in 1985 by Eva Ibbotson.
 The book is dedicated to Patricia Veryan.
 Critically well received, the young adult novel is starting to be obliquely referred to in reviews, as reviewers attempt to compliment a new work by comparing it to another, better established work.
Rosemary Rogers, née Rosemary Jansz (born 7 December 1932 in Panadura, Ceylon, now Sri Lanka) is a best-selling author of historical romance novels.
 Her first book, "Sweet Savage Love", was published in 1974.
 She was the second romance author, after Kathleen Woodiwiss, to have her novels published in trade paperback format.
 Both writers found their initial success working with editor Nancy Coffey who was then with Avon Books.
 Rogers is considered to be one of the founders of the modern historical romance, and many of today's writers cite her writing as one of their biggest influences.
 She lives in California.
Sherry M. Thomas (born 1975) is an American novelist of young adult fantasy, historical romance, and contemporary romance.
 She has won multiple awards including the Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Historical Romance for "Not Quite a Husband" in 2010 and "His at Night" in 2011.
 Most best-of-romance lists include one of her titles.

Question: In which city was this writer of historical romance fiction to whom "A Company of Swans" was dedicated born?
Answer: London, England