Author Holmes, Diana Publisher Oxford University Press Location Oxford Publication year 2006 Link https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xKUUDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&… Comment There is a review in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Topic history France religion/spirituality Christian romance Delly Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) genre definitions gender readers Georges Ohnet Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou Marcelle Tinayre Colette Max du Veuzit Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality lesbian romance Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
There is a review in the Journal of Popular Romance Studies.