Baroness Orczy

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

Vinson, James

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

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

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

historical romance

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Margery Hilton

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

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

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

historical romance

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Margery Hilton

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

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

Hughes, Helen

(1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge

Topic

historical romance

history

Georgette Heyer

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

social/economic class

Mira Stables

Rowena Tenet

Cadogan, Mary

(1994) And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present London: Macmillan

Topic

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

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Elinor Glyn

Ethel M. Dell

romances in magazines and newspapers

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

(1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Diana Palmer

Mary Renault

Emilie Richards

Denise Robins

Rosemary Rogers

Berta Ruck

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Vasudevan, Aruna

Henderson, Lesley

(1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Diana Palmer

Mary Renault

Emilie Richards

Denise Robins

Rosemary Rogers

Berta Ruck

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

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

Bloom, Clive

(2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

UK

readers

Publishing

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

(2011) Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press

Topic

Marie Corelli

Ethel M. Dell

E. M. Hull

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward