E. M. Forster

Regis, Pamela (2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
genre definitions
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Samuel Richardson
Jane Austen
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Charlotte Brontë
Anthony Trollope
E. M. Forster
Georgette Heyer
Mary Stewart
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Janet Dailey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
E. M. Hull