Edmondson, Belinda (2007) The Black Romance Women's Studies Quarterly 35.1/2:191-211 Topic African American romance Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) sex/sexuality race/ethnicity Frances Watkins Harper Caribbean film/movies social/economic class national identity
Regis, Pamela (2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2 Topic United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance scholarship Charles Brockden Brown Sukey Vickery Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Maria Child E. D. E. N. Southworth Louisa May Alcott Frances Watkins Harper race/ethnicity Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Jean Webster Kathleen Thompson Norris Viña Delmar family Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
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 African American romance Publishing Beverly Jenkins