• Shop our vintage romance books and find a favourite old love story by the author Emma Hermina M. Black Lethbridge (1893-1986) who wrote under the pen name 'Hermina Black.

    A prolific writer of romance, especially the popular Hospital Romances, often the Nurse & Doctor vintage love stories, that were so popular in the mid 20th Century.

    She made an extensive contribution to the vintage romance genre with over seventy romantic fiction novels to her name.

    Traditional and old school romances with strong male characters and classic happy endings often with the peal of wedding bells as our hero and heroine find bliss.

    Just the thing for a perfectly nostalgic romantic read.

  • Hermina Black Vintage Romance Books
Front cover of Yesterdays Love Hermina Black Romance Book Club Hardback showing a nurse in a vintage uniform.

Kitty's Classic Reads: The best vintage Romances by Hermina Black

"Yesterday's Love" is one of Hermina Black's finest romantic novels.

Why not try this classic romantic read in the Hospital Romance genre.

We can bet that pulses will be racing and not just the patients!

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Hermina Black Vintage Romance Books

"For an instant she stared up at him, her heart pounding so loudly that she could hardly hear her own gasped, 'Marry you--' 'Yes, is it such a daunting idea? then his hands were on her shoulders and his voice deepened. 'My dearest, I don't know whether what you have done to me is magic, but you can make it so. I love you, It's as simple as that..."
Hermina Black - Yesterday's Love.

Emma Hermina M. Black Lethbridge (1893-1986)

A highly popular romantic fiction author of the 20th century, Hermina Black's career spanned from the late 1940's to the 1980's...

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Hermina penned her first story at the age of fourteen beginning her career as a prolific romantic author.

Fuelled by her passion for writing romantic fiction, she crafted approximately seventy novels, each bearing the hallmark of her affection for strong love stories intertwined with a mysterious backdrop and a blissful conclusion.

Black's works offer an escape from the tumultuous nature of modern life, inviting readers into a world of respite and heartfelt emotion. At the time of writing most of her books she was residing in Hampshire, England, dedicating her time to her beloved hobbies of reading and book-collecting, all the while nurturing a deep fondness for her readership. She had a deep love for America and had many American and Australian fans of her books as well as fans in the United Kingdom.

Many of Hermina Blacks books were published as titles for the Romance Book Club in the 1960's and 1970's and remain popular today.

Some of her most famous titles include "Romance Comes to Scotland Yard", "Calling Dr Cardross", "Yesterday's Love" and "Spoilt Music".

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Timeline of Hermina Black Books:

1949: Simon Hartington's Widow
1950: Distant Star
1951: The House in Harley Street
1951: The House with the Fountains
1951: Moon over Morocco
1952: East of the Sun
1953: The Lordship of Love
1952: Secretary to Charles
1952: Strange Enchantment
1953: Let Love Go By
1953: Love's Crossroads
1953: My Old Love Came
1953: Strangers Can Love
1954: Bitter Honey
1954: Dangerous to Know
1954: Desert Hearts
1954: The Nurse on the Case
1954: Tread on the stars
1954: Dance On My Dreams
1955: It Happened in Arabia
1955: The Lonely Heart
1956: The Invisible Flame
1956: Sister Alison
1957: Jennifer Harlow, MD
1957: Romance for Romany
1957: Stardust for Dreams
1958: Cinderella in Sunlight
1958: In Pursuit of Perilla
1959: The Girl from Van Leydens
1959: Loren Ruston SRN
1959: Doctor in Shadow
1960: Shadows of Roses
1961: Love for Francesca
1962: Private Patient
1963: Dangerous Masquerade
1963: Who Is Lucinda?
1963: Theatre Sister at Riley's
1964: World of Shadows
1965: For a Dream's Sake
1966: Doctor at Downfold
1966: The Nurse in Charge
1967: Consultant Surgeon
1967: Danger in Montparnasse
1968: Calling Doctor Cardross
1968: Portrait of Sarah
1968: Spoilt Music
1969: Gift of the Desert
1969: Gold Moon of Africa
1969: Marriage of Susan
1969: Scent of Marigolds
1969: Sister At St Catherine's
1970: Romance Comes to Scotland Yard
1971: Poisoned Paradise
1972: Fortune's Daughter
1972: Ballerina
1973: Forget the Dream
1973: Enchanted Oasis
1973: Yesterday's Love
1974: Sweet Pilgrimage
1975: In the Time of Lilacs
1976: Lost Years
1976: When the Desert Blooms
1979: Blue Aloes
1981: Two Ways of Loving

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