Beverly Jenkins

(2003) "The Race, Gender, Romance Connection: A Black Feminist Reading of African American Women's Historical Romances " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 185-201

Topic

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2004) Black Women's Activism: Reading African American Women's Historical Romances New York: Peter Lang

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Anita Richmond Bunkley

(2010) The African American Historical Romance: An Interview with Beverly Jenkins Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.1:

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

Dandridge, Rita B.

(2016) "Love Prevailed Despite What American History Said: Agape and Eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night Song and Through the Storm " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 151-166

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(2021) "Inspirational Romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 191-211 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-8

Topic

Christian romance

Grace Livingston Hill

Janette Oke

Francine Rivers

gender

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(2007) 100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2021) "The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

Topic

history

Ficke, Sarah H.

(2025) "Falling in Love Outside of the Law: Piracy, Race, and Freedom in Caribbean Historical Romance " Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories? DOI:10.4324/9781003495840-2

Topic

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

Topic

authors

(2022) Against Odds: Beverly Jenkins’ Indigo and Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/DZPL7751

Topic

social/economic class

history

(2022) "How a Black Author Found Her Romance History " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 95-120

Topic

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

teaching romance

Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

(2022) Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/UEEC8118

Topic

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

Sandra Kitt

Brenda Jackson

Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

(2022) Race and Romance: Coloring the Past : Arizona State University

Topic

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

Heliodorus

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

genre definitions

Jenkins, Beverly

(2022) "A Short History of African American Romance " Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever After 1-15

Topic

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

Frances Watkins Harper

romances in magazines and newspapers

Publishing

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Kahn, Laurie

(2015) Love Between the Covers : Blueberry Hill Productions

Topic

(1997) My Life as a Romance Reader Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:15-28

Topic

readers

sex/sexuality

feminism

Brenda Joyce

Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

(2022) Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/UEEC8118

Topic

(2022) Journal of Popular Romance Studies: Special Issue: Black Romance : International Association for the Study of Popular Romance

Topic

Sandra Kitt

Brenda Jackson

Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

Moore, Jeania Ree V.

(2025) The Religious Work of Beverly Jenkins’s Black Historical Romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 14: DOI: 10.70138/KBQG2589

Topic

romance and, or as, activism

feminism

(2022) Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey) Journal of Popular Romance Studies 11: DOI: 10.70138/MHSY2470

Topic

(2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056

Topic

genre definitions

Samuel Richardson

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

E. D. E. N. Southworth

Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Faith Baldwin

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

marriage

Roach, Catherine M.

(2016) Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press

Topic

authors

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

(2016) "Love as the Practice of Bondage: Popular Romance Narratives and the Conundrum of Erotic Love " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 369-387

Topic

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

m/m romance

Romney, Rebecca

(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

Publishing

work

Harlequin Mills & Boon

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

YA/teenage romance