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"True to Me Always": An Analysis of Women's Magazine Fiction
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'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945
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Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story
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Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel
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Romance in the Age of Electronics: Harlequin Enterprises
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Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance
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Yesterday's Stories: Popular Women's Novels of the Twenties and Thirties
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Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920
Columbus:
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“I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection
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“We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels
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Urbana and Chicago:
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The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia
Lund Journal of English Studies
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