Vinson, James
Kirkpatrick, D. L.
(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company
Topic
Jane Aiken Hodge
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi
Lucilla Andrews
Jane Arbor
Elizabeth Ashton
Ruby M. Ayres
Faith Baldwin
Florence Barclay
Betty Beaty
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Barbara Cartland
Catherine Cookson
Marie Corelli
Janet Dailey
Iris Danbury
Ethel M. Dell
Viña Delmar
Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Maud Diver
Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy Eden
Eleanor Farnes
Jeffrey Farnol
Charles Garvice
Roberta Gellis
Elinor Glyn
Maysie Greig
Anne Hampson
Georgette Heyer
Grace Livingston Hill
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Elizabeth Hoy
E. M. Hull
Charlotte Lamb
Roumelia Lane
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie
Anne Mather
Patricia Matthews
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Margaret Mitchell
Netta Muskett
Betty Neels
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Baroness Orczy
Margaret Pargeter
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Denise Robins
Rosemary Rogers
Margaret Rome
Berta Ruck
Rafael Sabatini
Sara Seale
Danielle Steel
Mary Stewart
Rebecca Stratton
Essie Summers
Annie S. Swan
Kay Thorpe
Patricia Veryan
Lucy Walker
Margaret Way
Phyllis A. Whitney
Kathleen Winsor
Violet Winspear
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Mussell, Kay
(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press
Topic
gothic romance
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
United States of America
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Augusta Jane Evans
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Margaret Mitchell
Daphne du Maurier
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Mary Stewart
Phyllis A. Whitney
Rosemary Rogers
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Grace Livingston Hill
film/movies
readers
romance scholarship
Regis, Pamela
(2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2
Topic
United States of America
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
romance scholarship
Charles Brockden Brown
Sukey Vickery
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Lydia Maria Child
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Louisa May Alcott
Frances Watkins Harper
race/ethnicity
Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton
Jean Webster
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Viña Delmar
family
Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors