Matelski, Elizabeth (2016) ""I'm Not the Only Lesbian Who Wears a Skirt": Lesbian Romance Fiction and Identity in Post-World War II America " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 71-88 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors fashion/clothing United States of America gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history metafiction Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith lesbian romance Valerie Taylor Ann Bannon Rita Mae Brown
Regis, Pamela (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 religion/spirituality Kathleen Thompson Norris Faith Baldwin Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Kathleen Woodiwiss Jennifer Crusie Beverly Jenkins Ann Herendeen Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb marriage
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
Weir, Angela Wilson, Elizabeth (1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Ann Bannon Valerie Taylor Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith history March Hastings marriage psychology cross-dressing Gale Wilhelm Radclyffe Hall Randy Salem gender sex/sexuality
Weir, Angela Wilson, Elizabeth (1992) "The Greyhound Bus Station in the Evolution of Lesbian Popular Culture " New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings 95-113 Topic LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Ann Bannon Valerie Taylor Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith history March Hastings marriage psychology cross-dressing Gale Wilhelm Radclyffe Hall Randy Salem gender sex/sexuality