Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
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 India UK historical romance race/ethnicity
Arnold-Forster, Agnes (2021) Racing Pulses: Gender, Professionalism and Health Care in Medical Romance Fiction History Workshop Journal 91.1:157–181 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/dbab011 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon medical romance work gender UK romance and, or as, activism social/economic class readers authors romances in magazines and newspapers Elizabeth Gilzean Alex Stuart Hilda Pressley, pseudonym of Hilda Nickson Marguerite Lees family marriage Betty Neels
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Bazenga, Aline (2022) "Paisaje sociocultural y lingüístico de la isla de Madeira: Visiones anglocéntricas en una muestra de seis novelas rosa " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 65-83 Topic Portugal UK Harlequin Mills & Boon settings metaphor/symbolism linguistics
Bazenga, Aline (2022) "The sociocultural and linguistic landscape of Madeira: Anglocentric visions in a sample of six romance novels " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 257-274 Topic Portugal UK Harlequin Mills & Boon settings metaphor/symbolism linguistics
Bloom, Clive (2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic UK readers Publishing Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Florence Barclay Marie Corelli Charles Garvice Elinor Glyn Baroness Orczy Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi Berta Ruck Ethel M. Dell Ruby M. Ayres Jeffrey Farnol E. M. Hull Rafael Sabatini Daphne du Maurier Georgette Heyer Margaret Mitchell Mary Renault Jackie Collins Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Barbara Taylor Bradford Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson Charlotte Lamb Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney M. M. Kaye Colleen McCullough Danielle Steel Phyllis A. Whitney
Burge, Amy (2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sheikh romance history gender race/ethnicity sex/sexuality settings UK fashion/clothing Harlequin Mills & Boon virginity rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Caton, Steven C. (2000) "The Sheik: Instabilities of Race and Gender in Transatlantic Popular Culture of the Early 1920s " Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures: Orientalism in America, 1870-1930 99-117 Topic E. M. Hull United States of America UK race/ethnicity settings gender history rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Dascăl, Reghina (2012) "Raj Matriarchs: Women Authors of Anglo-Indian Romance " Romance: The History of a Genre 179-200 Topic India UK history Maud Diver Flora Annie Steel
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Dixon, jay (2020) The Depiction of Masculinity and Nationality in The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic E. M. Hull gender race/ethnicity UK Scotland
Dixon, jay (2021) "History of English romance novels, 1621-1975 " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 27-50 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-1 Topic UK Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance
Duder, C. J. D. (1991) Love and the Lions: The Image of White Settlement in Kenya in Popular Fiction, 1919-1939 African Affairs 90.360:427-438 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098441 Topic Kenya UK national identity history race/ethnicity Florence Riddell Nora K. Strange trash/literary and or intellectual quality fascism/right-wing authoritarianism
Egan, Jesi (2016) Cultural Futurity and the Politics of Recovery: Mary Renault's Ambivalent Romances MFS Modern Fiction Studies 62.3:462-80 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2016.0038 Topic Mary Renault romance and, or as, activism genre definitions sex/sexuality UK national identity health/medical trash/literary and or intellectual quality gender emotions modernism LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Escolar, Marisa (2015) Marry the Allies? Luciana Peverelli’s ‘True’ Romanzo Rosa in ‘Liberated’ Rome Italian Studies 70.2:228-248 DOI: 10.1179/0075163415Z.00000000097 Topic Luciana Peverelli Italy national identity fascism/right-wing authoritarianism race/ethnicity war/armed forces sex/sexuality UK
Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39 Topic Beatrice Grimshaw Australia national identity race/ethnicity gender UK Harlequin Mills & Boon Oceania feminism
Forbes, Curdella (2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1: DOI: 10.33596/anth.61 Topic Caribbean Valerie Belgrave UK race/ethnicity sex/sexuality
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Fox, Pamela (1994) The "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 27.2:140-160 DOI: 10.2307/1345818 Topic social/economic class socialism and/or communism UK Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Ellen Wilkinson rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse capitalism/business work gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Frenier, Mariam Darce (1988) Good-bye Heathcliff: Changing Heroes, Heroines, Roles, and Values in Women’s Category Romances New York: Greenwood Press Topic gender United States of America UK Harlequin Mills & Boon feminism sex/sexuality work
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Giles, Judy (1995) "'You Meet 'Em and That's It': Working Class Women's Refusal of Romance Between the Wars in Britain " Romance Revisited 279-292 Topic UK social/economic class
Grover, Mary (2023) Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955 Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Topic readers social/economic class history UK libraries/librarians Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Sophie Cole Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hallock, Jennifer (2018) History Ever After: Fabricated Historical Chronotopes in Romance Genre Fiction 2018 IASPR conference : Topic historical romance history Publishing race/ethnicity Jennifer Hallock UK settings social/economic class Jane Austen Georgette Heyer Alyssa Cole readers United States of America
Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press Topic social/economic class settings national identity work marriage medical romance history UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Hughes, Helen (1993) The Historical Romance London and New York: Routledge Topic historical romance history Georgette Heyer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Stanley Weyman Rafael Sabatini Jeffrey Farnol Barbara Cartland social/economic class UK national identity gender A. E. W. Mason Baroness Orczy readers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Mira Stables Rowena Tenet
Iwai, Gaku (2015) Wartime Ideology in 'The Thimble': A Comparative Study of Popular Wartime Romance and the Anti-romance of D. H. Lawrence Études Lawrenciennes 46: DOI: 10.4000/lawrence.236 Topic war/armed forces Berta Ruck gender UK national identity
Jarvis, Christine (1999) Love Changes Everything: The Transformative Potential of Popular Romantic Fiction Studies in the Education of Adults 31.2:109-123 DOI: 10.1080/02660830.1999.11661406 Topic teaching romance readers feminism Harlequin Mills & Boon gender sex/sexuality marriage rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse social/economic class wealth/prosperity race/ethnicity Charlotte Brontë China UK
Jarvis, Christine A. (2003) Desirable Reading: The Relationship between Women Students' Lives and their Reading Practices Adult Education Quarterly 53.4:261-276 DOI: 10.1177/0741713603254029 Topic readers teaching romance gender Islam sex/sexuality UK
Joannou, Maroula (2012) Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The Mobile Woman and the Migrant Voice, 1938-1962 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Topic UK war/armed forces Daphne du Maurier Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Kathleen Winsor Georgette Heyer cross-dressing fashion/clothing
Kamblé, Jayashree (2020) When Wuxia Met Romance: The Pleasures and Politics of Transculturalism in Sherry Thomas’s My Beautiful Enemy Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9: Topic Sherry Thomas China war/armed forces race/ethnicity historical romance UK gender national identity family
Kamblé, Jayashree (2024) "Love in Victorian London: Immigrant Histories and Intersecting Diversities in K. J. Charles’s Sins of the Cities " Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History DOI:10.4324/9781003493792-4 Topic K. J. Charles race/ethnicity historical romance UK
Keegan, Faye Jessica (2016) Soft metafiction(s) : Mary Stewart and the self-reflective middlebrow PhD, University of Newcastle, UK Topic Mary Stewart romantic suspense trash/literary and or intellectual quality national identity history metafiction fairytales/folktales gothic romance UK
King, Laura (2015) "The Perfect Man: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Romance in Popular Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain " Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 41–60 DOI:10.1057/9781137328632_3 Topic family gender marriage history UK
Kingston, Elizabeth (2018) History's Been Hijacked: How To Combat White Supremacy Through Popular Literature Researching the Romance, conference held at Bowling Green State University, on 13 April : Topic historical romance race/ethnicity history Elizabeth Kingston Publishing UK social/economic class
Light, Alison (1984) Returning to Manderley – Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class Feminist Review 16:7-25 DOI: 10.1057/fr.1984.2 Topic Daphne du Maurier readers psychology social/economic class sex/sexuality UK
Linke, Gabriele (1997) Contemporary Mass Market Romances as National and International Culture: A Comparative Study of Mills & Boon and Harlequin Romances Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:195-213 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America UK national identity race/ethnicity
Mäkelä, Veera (2020) ""World Turned Upside Down": The Role of Revolutions in Maya Rodale's Regency-Set Romances " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 38-52 Topic Maya Rodale United States of America UK historical romance social/economic class gender race/ethnicity emotions feminism
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
McAleer, Joseph (1989) Popular Literature and Reading Habits in Britain, 1914-1950 D.Phil. (also referred to as a PhD thesis), St John's College, University of Oxford Topic readers Publishing UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
McAleer, Joseph (1999) Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon Publishing UK Betty Beaty Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook Elizabeth Carfrae Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Sophie Cole Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Iris Danbury Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr Constance M. Evans Eleanor Farnes Louise Gerard Elizabeth Gilzean romances in magazines and newspapers Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay libraries/librarians Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Phyllis Matthewman medical romance sex/sexuality work marriage race/ethnicity happy ending family religion/spirituality readers Marjorie Moore Betty Neels Valerie K. Nelson Kate Norway/Olive Norton Denise Robins Sara Seale Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton gender Alex Stuart Essie Summers Joan Sutherland Anne Weale Hilary Wilde Violet Winspear Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham Ireland
McAleer, Joseph (2011) "Love, Romance, and the National Health Service " Classes, Cultures, & Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin 173-191 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0011 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK medical romance health/medical work Elizabeth Gilzean Marjorie Moore Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest Kate Norway/Olive Norton Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Valerie K. Nelson Alex Stuart Joan Blair Betty Beaty Ireland Marguerite Lees Norrey Ford Anne Lorraine Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
McAlister, Jodi (2020) The Consummate Virgin: Female Virginity Loss and Love in Anglophone Popular Literatures Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Topic sex/sexuality love virginity history romance scholarship historical romance rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Harlequin Mills & Boon Twilight Fifty Shades race/ethnicity Kathleen Woodiwiss Catherine Coulter Loretta Chase Teresa Medeiros Julia Quinn Lisa Kleypas Stephanie Laurens Courtney Milan Johanna Lindsey Denise Robins Sophie Cole Louise Gerard Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway national identity UK readers
Mussell, Kay (1984) Fantasy and Reconciliation: Contemporary Formulas of Women’s Romance Fiction Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press Topic Mary Stewart Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert Phyllis A. Whitney Roberta Gellis Anya Seton Georgette Heyer Barbara Cartland feminism romantic suspense historical romance gender sex/sexuality marriage Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) erotic romance readers romance scholarship Harlequin Mills & Boon gothic romance Jane Austen history settings social/economic class UK United States of America fairytales/folktales family Charlotte Brontë psychology
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
Owen, Mairead (1990) Women's Reading of Popular Romantic Fiction: A Case Study in the Mass Media: A Key to the Ideology of Women PhD, University of Liverpool Topic readers Publishing authors libraries/librarians UK
Pérez Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "“There’s Something Charming about a Man with an Accent, Isn’t There?”: The Representation of Otherness in Three Novels by Lisa Kleypas " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 145-156 Topic Lisa Kleypas race/ethnicity historical romance languages social/economic class UK
Pérez-Casal, Inmaculada (2020) "Business-like Lords and Gentlemanly Businessmen: The Romance Hero in Lisa Kleypas's Wallflowers Series " Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture 194-208 Topic Lisa Kleypas capitalism/business historical romance United States of America UK national identity social/economic class
Pérez-Fernández, Irene (2024) Black British love matters: Asserting the transformative power of love in Bolu Babalola’s Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold Journal of Postcolonial Writing ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2024.2312359 Topic Bolu Babalola race/ethnicity UK myth
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2018) Exoticism, Ethnocentrism, and Englishness in Popular Romance Fiction: Constructing the European Other Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:940-955 DOI: 10.1111/jpcu.12710 Topic Spain national identity UK race/ethnicity islands Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2019) Representations of Nation and Spanish Masculinity in Popular Romance Novels: The Alpha Male as “Other” The Journal of Men’s Studies 27.2:169-182 DOI: 10.1177/1060826518801531 Topic Spain gender national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon UK
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2020) "Britannia’s Daughters: Popular Romance Fiction and the Ideology of National Superiority (1950s–1970s) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 13-24 Topic national identity race/ethnicity UK history Violet Winspear Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Kay Thorpe Greece Spain Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie gender feminism
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Imperfect paradise: Madeira in the novels of Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt, and Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 247-256 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender
Pérez-Gil, María del Mar (2022) "Paraísos imperfectos: Madeira en las novelas de Margaret Rome, Katrina Britt y Sally Wentworth " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 53-64 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity race/ethnicity Portugal UK Margaret Rome Ethel Connell as Katrina Britt Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth Sara Wood gender
Philips, Deborah Haywood, Ian (1998) Brave New Causes: Women in British Postwar Fictions London: Leicester University Press Topic social/economic class settings national identity work marriage medical romance history UK Harlequin Mills & Boon
Philips, Deborah (2011) "The Empire of Romance: Love in a Postcolonial Climate " End of Empire and the English Novel since 1945 114-133 Topic Harlequin Mills & Boon UK race/ethnicity Pamela Kent Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Jean Herbert settings work Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Africa medical romance
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Rampure, Archana (2005) Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance PhD, University of Toronto Topic medical romance race/ethnicity UK Olivia Gates war/armed forces national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America feminism work Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton Debbie Macomber health/medical history Lucy Agnes Hancock Louise Gerard Helen Dore Boylston Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway Charlotte Lamb Africa war/armed forces
Reed, Eleanor (2018) Domestic Culture in Woman's Weekly, 1918-1958 PhD, University of Roehampton Topic history social/economic class romances in magazines and newspapers Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) UK
Reed, Eleanor (2020) Romance in Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly as Romance, 1918–39 Journal of European Periodical Studies 5.2:80–94 DOI: 10.21825/jeps.v5i2.17039 Topic romances in magazines and newspapers social/economic class UK readers work
Reed, Eleanor (2023) Woman's Weekly and Lower-Middle-Class Domestic Culture in Britain, 1918-1958: Making Homemakers Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Topic romances in magazines and newspapers UK readers social/economic class
Regan, Lisa (2017) Women and the 'War Machine' in the Desert Romances of E. M. Hull and Rosita Forbes Women's Writing 24.1:109-122 DOI: 10.1080/09699082.2016.1233773 Topic E. M. Hull UK war/armed forces national identity
Roach, David (2023) A Very British Affair – The Best of Classic Romance Comics Oxford: Rebellion Topic comics/manga UK
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Sanconie, Maïca (2010) « Tout un monde d’évasion » : adapter les romans sentimentaux pour un lectorat français Meta 55.4:732–751 DOI: 10.7202/045688ar Topic historical romance translation settings Julie Anne Long Pamela Britton France UK United States of America
Sanyal, Madhuparna (2008) Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver PhD, Drew University Topic Maud Diver India UK race/ethnicity Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Saxena, Vandana (2023) Afterlives of Colonialism: Nostalgia, Reader’s Response and the Case of Noel Barber’s Tanamera The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 58.2:340-358 DOI: 10.1177/0021989420971331 Topic historical romance history race/ethnicity UK Singapore national identity readers Malaysia war/armed forces settings Noel Barber
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) India settings race/ethnicity gender UK
Alberti, Paola Fortunati, Vita Franci, Giovanna Galateria, Daria Mangaroni, Rosella Pozzato, Maria Pia Sabbadini, Tiziana Tempera, Mariangela (1986) Maestre d'amore: eroine e scrittrici nell'impero del rosa inglese Bari: Edizioni Dedalo Topic UK Elinor Glyn E. M. Hull
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2003) "The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018 Topic national identity race/ethnicity UK history Africa gender Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex E. M. Hull sheikh romance Harlequin Mills & Boon United States of America Native American romance
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2004) Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture 4.1: Topic India UK social/economic class history race/ethnicity gender Flora Annie Steel Mrs F. E. Penny Alice Perrin Maud Diver Alice Eustace Juliet Armstrong Harlequin Mills & Boon national identity
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) "Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262 Topic sheikh romance gender race/ethnicity sex/sexuality history E. M. Hull UK United States of America work feminism family
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2010) Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1: Topic E. M. Hull film/movies UK United States of America race/ethnicity history gender sex/sexuality war/armed forces rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2: Topic Australia Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) love gender marriage national identity Mary Bradford Whiting UK race/ethnicity family sex/sexuality rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse Broda Reynolds Mabel Forrest Marie Bjelke Petersen Alice Grant Rosman Rosa Praed rural romance settings work Ada Cambridge
Teo, Hsu-Ming (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 Topic Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) UK history national identity Harlequin Mills & Boon Australia Canada New Zealand Africa India E. M. Hull race/ethnicity gender sheikh romance Nora K. Strange settings Rosa Praed Mary Gaunt Gertrude Page Florence Riddell Flora Annie Steel Ouida Marie Corelli Kathlyn Rhodes Joan Conquest Mrs F. E. Penny Maud Diver Alice Perrin Alice Eustace rural romance
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2020) "“And they Drive on the Wrong Side of the Road”: The Anglo-centric Vision of the Canary Islands in Mills & Boon Romance Novels (1955–1987) " Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other 25-39 Topic UK Spain Harlequin Mills & Boon settings national identity history gender fascism/right-wing authoritarianism family marriage religion/spirituality
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) "Canarian culture and identity and their representation in the novels of the FFI2014-53962-P corpus " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 275-296 Topic national identity Spain UK metaphor/symbolism
Vera-Cazorla, María Jesús (2022) "La cultura y la identidad canarias y su representación en las novelas del corpus FFI2014-53962-P " Discursos e Identidades en la Ficción Romántica: Visiones Anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias / Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries 85-107 Topic national identity Spain UK metaphor/symbolism
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 DOI: 10.37389/abei.v20i2.3204 Topic Ireland historical romance Karen Robards UK race/ethnicity gender cross-dressing settings rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse sex/sexuality
Vivanco, Laura (2022) Historical Accuracy, Racism, Courtney Milan, and The Duke Who Didn’t Conform to Genre Norms Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic race/ethnicity historical romance authors Courtney Milan history United States of America UK humour
Batsleer, Janet Davies, Tony O'Rourke, Rebecca Weedon, Chris (1985) Rewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class London: Methuen Topic genre definitions gender capitalism/business feminism Florence Barclay E. M. Hull history Barbara Cartland Catherine Cookson social/economic class race/ethnicity UK sex/sexuality fashion/clothing
White, Bonnie (2022) Freedom, Sincerity, and the Modern Woman in the Interwar Romances of Berta Ruck Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: Topic Berta Ruck history gender UK cross-dressing LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors sex/sexuality fashion/clothing emotions
Worpole, Ken (1984) Reading by Numbers: Contemporary Publishing & Popular Fiction London: Comedia Publishing Group Topic Publishing UK Harlequin Mills & Boon trash/literary and or intellectual quality feminism romances in magazines and newspapers