Emma Holly

Hall, Glinda F.

(2009) The Creators of Women’s Popular Romance Fiction: The Authors Who Gave Women a Genre of Their Own Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Rosemary Rogers

historical romance

Candice Proctor

Patricia Potter

Beverly Jenkins

United States of America

Frantz, Sarah S. G.

(2012) "The History of BDSM Fiction and Romance " Fifty Writers on Fifty Shades of Grey 159-172

Topic

Therrien, Kathleen

(2012) "Straight to the Edges: Gay and Lesbian Characters and Cultural Conflict in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 164-177

Topic

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

social/economic class

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