India

Stieg, Margaret F.

(1985) Indian Romances: Tracts for the Times Journal of Popular Culture 18.4:2-15 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-3840.1985.00002.x

Topic

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

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1994) "Romance Reading in the Third World: A Postcolonial Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality " Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IV: International Media 71-102

Topic

romance scholarship

social/economic class

national identity

Omissi, Dominic

(1995) The Mills and Boon memsahibs: women's romantic Indian fiction 1877-1947 PhD, University of Lancaster

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika E.

(1997) Public Images, Private Pleasures: Romance Reading at the Intersection of Gender, Class, and National Identities in Urban India PhD, University of Iowa

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

national identity

(1997) Reading Romance Novels in Postcolonial India Gender & Society 11.4:434-452 DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004004

Topic

social/economic class

Parameswaran, Radhika

(1999) Western Romance Fiction as English-Language Media in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 49.3:84-105 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.1999.tb02806.x

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

social/economic class

libraries/librarians

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Bagchi, Jayeeta

(2000) Looking for Reality in Romance Social Scientist 28.3/4:30-39

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fairytales/folktales

Ganapathy, Subha

(2002) Who Is Afraid of Romance Novels?: Women Readers, Patriarchy and Popular Culture PhD thesis, Mother Teresa Women’s University

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

social/economic class

national identity

historical romance

(2004) Narratives of Fractured Conjugality: Women’s Romance Novels in Kannada, 1950s-1960s Journal of Karnataka Studies 2.1:

Topic

(2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1:

Topic

social/economic class

Flora Annie Steel

Mrs F. E. Penny

Juliet Armstrong

Harlequin Mills & Boon

national identity

(2005) Margins of Desire: The Suburbs in Fiction and Culture, 1880-1925 Manchester: Manchester University Press

Topic

social/economic class

romances in magazines and newspapers

war/armed forces

Kamble, Jayashree

(2007) "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

fashion/clothing

(2007) ""I find some Hindu practices like burning widows, utterly bizarre": Representations of Sati and Questions of Choice in Veils of Silk " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 129-147

Topic

historical romance

religion/spirituality

Kamble, Jayashree

(2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

Topic

capitalism/business

war/armed forces

historical romance

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Stephanie Laurens

Sanyal, Madhuparna

(2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University

Topic

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

(2010) Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Topic

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

Flora Annie Steel

Bithia Mary Croker

Palewska, Marie

(2011) "Féeries orientales : l’Inde chez Delly " L’Œuvre de Delly 139-162

Topic

Arargüç, M. Fikret

(2012) Empire and Romance: John Masters's Nightrunners of Bengal Interactions: Ege Journal of British and American Studies 21.1-2:1-14

Topic

historical romance

Dascăl, Reghina

(2012) "Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 179-200

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

(2014) A Female Poetics of Empire: From Eliot to Woolf New York: Routledge

Topic

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

Bithia Mary Croker

Mrs F. E. Penny

Flora Annie Steel

(2014) Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21.1:85-110 DOI: 10.1177/0971521513511201

Topic

Uparkar, Shilpa

(2014) Desi love stories: Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Indian enterprise Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:321-333 DOI: 10.1386/ajpc.3.3.321_1

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2016) "Literary Success and Popular Romantic Fiction: Ethel M. Dell, a Case Study " The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940 83-94 DOI:10.1163/9789004315884_006

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

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

romances in magazines and newspapers

(2016) "Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

Rudisill, Kristen

(2018) Full-Blooded Desi Romance: Contemporary English-Language Romance Novels in India Journal of Popular Culture 51.3:754-775 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12652

Topic

national identity

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2019) Madness, Monks and Mutiny: Neo-Victorianism in the Work of Victoria Holt Neo-Victorian Studies 12.1:1-27 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3470919

Topic

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

romantic suspense

Charlotte Brontë

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2020) "India, Heat, Dust, and Tea? Alienness and Marketability in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Nicole C. Vosseler " Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives: Alien Domiciles 39-51

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Nicole C. Vosseler

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Daud, Kathrina Mohd

(2021) "In response to Harlequin: Global legacy, local agency " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 529-545 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-24

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra

(2021) "Romance Novels in Postcolonial India: From Mills & Boon to Pageturn’s Red Romance Series " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 223-241

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(2021) The literary field of queer cultural production in contemporary India: considering popular queer texts via Bourdieu Runas: Journal of Education & Culture 2.4: DOI: 10.46652/runas.v2i4.48

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Shields, Juliet

(2021) Scottish Women's Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Romance of Everyday Life Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

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

Sir Walter Scott

(2022) New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st Century Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2022) "Reading Mills and Boon in India From the Post-Colonial to the Millennial Experience " Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Montebello, Sophie

(2024) The Representation and Self-Representation of Anglo-Indians in Literature from 1885 to the Present Day PhD, The Open University

Topic

Flora Annie Steel

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

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

(2025) "Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-8

Topic

historical romance

Dinah Jefferies

Schwegler-Castañer, Astrid

(2025) "Post/Colonial Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dinah Jefferies' The Tea Planter's Wife and Before the Rains * " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-8

Topic

historical romance

Dinah Jefferies