Penelope Williamson

Krentz, Jayne Ann
(1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
readers
gender
authors
emotions
myth
Cathie Linz
Linda Barlow
metaphor/symbolism
linguistics
happy ending
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Laura Kinsale
psychology
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
feminism
Daphne Clair
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Robyn Donald
Anne Stuart
love
Elizabeth Lowell
war/armed forces
Mary Jo Putney
virginity
Doreen Owens Malek
Brittany Young
sex/sexuality
Penelope Williamson
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Judith Arnold
work
Stella Cameron
Sandra Brown
Suzanne Simmons Guntrum
Diana Palmer
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Veldman-Genz, Carole
(2012) "The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120
Topic
love
Lisa Kleypas
Christina Dodd
Linda Howard
Catherine George
Isabelle Holland
Jude Deveraux
Amanda Scott
Catherine Coulter
Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
Karen Ranney
Sandra Brown
Nicole Jordan
LaVyrle Spencer
Penelope Williamson
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
feminism
erotic romance
Emma Holly
Rachel Bo
marriage
Mardi Ballou
Ellora's Cave
Samantha Kane
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors