Kathleen Winsor

(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)

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

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

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

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

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

Topic

historical romance

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

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Margery Hilton

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

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

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Ramsdell, Kristin

(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood

Topic

Publishing

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

science fiction/futuristic romance

Elinor Glyn

Margaret Mitchell

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Georgette Heyer

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

historical romance

E. M. Hull

romance scholarship

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

libraries/librarians

romantic suspense

Samuel Richardson

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Anne Mather

Patricia Matthews

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

Margaret Mitchell

Netta Muskett

Betty Neels

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham