RA Collection: People and Organisations
Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Rusgrove Mills (1877–1928) and Charles Boon (1877-1943) in 1908 as a general fiction publisher. It was not until the 1930s that the company began to concentrate specifically on romances. The company was purchased in 1971, by Harlequin Enterprises of Canada, their North American distributor.