Daphne du Maurier

Claudette Nicole

Belsey, Catherine

(1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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readers

Publishing

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Charlotte Lamb

(1994) And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present London: Macmillan

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Elinor Glyn

Ethel M. Dell

romances in magazines and newspapers

Crusie Smith, Jennifer

(1998) "The Romantic Suspense Mystery " Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, Volume 2 1183-1197

Dryden, Therese Michelle

(2011) Bachelor Dad on Her Doorstep Masters, University of Newcastle, Australia

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2005) Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions PhD, University of Stirling

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(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

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historical romance

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Margery Hilton

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Hirst, Holly

(2020) "Georgette Heyer " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 373-389 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_23

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(2020) "The Gothic Romance " The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic 357-372 DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-33136-8_22

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gothic romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Phyllis A. Whitney

social/economic class

Catherine Cookson

Christine Marion Fraser

Georgette Heyer

Joannou, Maroula

(2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

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war/armed forces

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(2014) Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture Romanian Journal of English Studies 11.1:183–194 DOI: 10.2478/rjes-2014-0022

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(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

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Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

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

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

historical romance

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Margery Hilton

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Light, Alison

(1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1984.2

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

readers

psychology

social/economic class

sex/sexuality

Lutz, Deborah

(2006) The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative Columbus: Ohio State University Press

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love

death

philosophy

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press

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gothic romance

United States of America

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Augusta Jane Evans

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Margaret Mitchell

Mary Stewart

Phyllis A. Whitney

Rosemary Rogers

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2007) Romance Writing Cambridge: Polity Press

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love

Jane Rule

(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

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Publishing

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Georgette Heyer

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

historical romance

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2017) Daphne Du Maurier's Mary Anne: Rewriting the Regency Romance as Feminist History University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 86.4:54-77

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(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

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