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