LaVyrle Spencer | Romance Scholarship DB

Chappel, Deborah K. (1991) American romances: narratives of culture and identity PhD, Duke University

Topic

LaVyrle Spencer

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

Kathleen Winsor

Margaret Mitchell

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Chappel, Deborah K. (1997) LaVyrle Spencer and the Anti-Essentialist Argument Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:107-120

Topic

LaVyrle Spencer

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

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

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

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

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Vasudevan, Aruna Henderson, Lesley (1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

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

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

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

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

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

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Maynard, Lee Anna (2008) LaVyrle Spencer Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice 2.2/3:1-17

Topic

LaVyrle Spencer

historical romance

war/armed forces

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Moody, Nickianne (1998) " Mills & Boon’s Temptations: Sex and the Single Couple in the 1990s " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 141-156

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

LaVyrle Spencer

Mary Tate Engels

Cathy Gillen Thacker

Rita Clay Estrada

Candace Schuler

Radner, Hilary (1995) Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure New York and London: Routledge

Topic

Barbara Delinsky

Kathleen Woodiwiss

historical romance

LaVyrle Spencer

Thurston, Carol (1987) The Romance Revolution: Erotic Novels for Women and the Quest for a New Sexual Identity Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press

Topic

United States of America

historical romance

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rosemary Rogers

LaVyrle Spencer

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Vasudevan, Aruna Henderson, Lesley (1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

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

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

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

Vivanco, Laura (2016) Pursuing Happiness: Reading American Romance as Political Fiction Tirril, Penrith: Humanities-Ebooks