Burley, Stephanie (2003) "What's a Nice Girl like You Doing in a Book like This?: Homoerotic Reading and Popular Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 127-146 Topic sex/sexuality readers Karen Robards Kristin Hannah virginity BDSM LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors
Villar-Argáiz, Pilar (2018) Ireland and the Popular Genre of Historical Romance: The Novels of Karen Robards ABEI: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies 20.2:97-109 Topic Ireland historical romance Karen Robards UK race/ethnicity gender cross-dressing settings rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality
