Moody-Freeman, Julie E. (2021) "African American romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 229-251 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-10 Topic African American romance precursors of modern romance race/ethnicity Publishing Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku Alyssa Cole