paratext

translation

Bilodeau, Isabelle

(2022) How Romance Translators Write Themselves and Their Readers into Afterwords Departmental Bulletin Paper 47:81-98

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(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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Bowring, Joanna

O’Brien, Margaret

(2008) The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs Munich: Prestel

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Brackett, Kim Pettigrew

(2000) Facework Strategies Among Romance Fiction Readers The Social Science Journal 37.3:347-360 DOI: 10.1016/S0362-3319(00)00073-2

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(2001) Romance Novel of One's Own: The Nature and "Failure" of the Lesbian Romance Sub-Genre Master of Arts, West Chester University

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(2011) Does This Book Make Me Look Fat? Journal of Popular Romance Studies 1.2:

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(2012) "Do Knights Still Rescue Damsels in Distress?: Reimagining the Medieval in the Mills & Boon Historical Romance " The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction 95-114

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history

food, drink

fashion/clothing

sex/sexuality

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

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Carlos, Giovana Santana

(2021) "Literatura pop feminina: as fãs de romance no Brasil " Comunicação e Culturas Urbanas: temas, debates e perspectivas 189-216

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(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

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(2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

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(2014) The Warrior Woman in Contemporary Romance Fiction Masters, Federation University Australia

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war/armed forces

Justine Davis/Justine Dare

(2015) C’est une femme qui vous parle: à propos de quelques caractéristiques du discours rapporté dans les romans sentimentaux de la collection Harlequin en anglais Le discours et la langue 7.1:141-152

Topic

Cuthbert van der Veer, Kate

(2023) Cover story: developing methodologies for the analysis of book titles and book covers PhD, University of Queensland

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(1986) Romances and the Modern Ms.: a Study of Contemporary (Line) Romances, 1980-1984 PhD, University of Southern California

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(2008) Le soglie del genere: identità femminile e modelli semiotici nel paratesto editoriale ,

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(2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

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Fisher, Maryanne L.

Meredith, Tami M.

(2022) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 16.2:157–175 DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000258

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Flesch, Juliet

(1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

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(1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190 DOI: 10.1080/00048623.1996.10754974

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(2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1: DOI: 10.7202/1066945ar

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Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Gagnon, Jocelyn

Noizet, Pascale

Provost, Christiane

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Gerlitz, Laura Michelle

(2019) Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory MA thesis, University of Alberta

Topic

Gillespie, Diane F.

(2004) Virginia Woolf and the Curious Case of Berta Ruck Woolf Studies Annual 10:109-138

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Berta Ruck

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

Gleason, William A.

(2016) "Postbellum, Pre-Harlequin: American Romance Publishing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 57-70

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romances in magazines and newspapers

(2009) "Romance the World Over " Global Cultures 59-72

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(2011) From Romance to Roberts and Back Again: genre, authorship and the construction of textual identity in contemporary popular romance novels PhD, University of Leuven

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Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

authors

genre definitions

romantic suspense

Goris, An

(2015) Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel Belphégor 13.1: DOI: 10.4000/belphegor.616

Topic

Greenfeld-Benovitz, Miriam

(2014) "The Interactive Romance Community: The Case of "Covers Gone Wild" " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 195-205

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(1983) Love Lines: The Romance Reader's Guide to Printed Pleasures New York: Facts on File

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(2007) "A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

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Hashim, Ruzy Suliza

Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail

(2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

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Hamdan, Shahizah Ismail

(2010) Facets of Women in Malay Romance Fiction Kunapipi 32.1:67-79

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(1987) Harlequin : l'unité dans la diversité et vice-versa Pratiques: linguistique, littérature, didactique 54:5-19 DOI: 10.3406/prati.1987.1434

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settings

work

Henderson, Courtney R.

(2007) Ladies and Loners: A Comparative Gender Study of the Romance and Popular Western Master of Arts, University of Texas at Arlington

Topic

Johanna Lindsey

Joan Johnston

settings

Margo Hendricks/Elysabeth Grace

historical romance

Hendricks, Margo

(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

(2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928 DOI: 10.1353/aq.2011.0061

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readers

Islam

Spain

Johnson-Kurek, Rosemary E.

Jensen, Margaret Ann

(1984) Love's $weet Return: The Harlequin Story Toronto: The Women's Educational Press

(1999) ""I Am Not a Bimbo": Persona, Promotion, and the Fabulous Fabio " Romantic Conventions 35-50

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Fabio Lanzoni, also known as Fabio

Johnson-Woods, Toni

(2004) Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers Canberra: National Library of Australia

Topic

Kamble, Jayashree

(2008) Uncovering and Recovering the Popular Romance Novel PhD, University of Minnesota

Topic

happy ending

Stephanie Laurens

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2016) "Branding a Genre: A Brief Transatlantic History of Romance Novel Cover Art " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 241-272

Topic

historical romance

Kamblé, Jayashree

(2021) "Romance in the media " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 269-293 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-12

Topic

(1992) "The Androgynous Reader: Point of View in the Romance " Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance 31-44

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(1997) La représentation du couple à travers les pages couvertures des romans Harlequin Cahiers de la recherche en éducation 4.2:269–297 DOI: 10.7202/1017331ar

Topic

(2023) Covers of Lovers: A Multimodal Comparison of the Front Covers of Romance Novels in 2011 and 2021 Masters thesis, Universiteit Utrecht

Topic

Lencevičienė, Lina

(2011) Selected Problems of Translation of the Romance Genre: Analysis of Barbara Cartland's Romance Novel Bewitched Translation into Lithuanian Masters, Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas

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(2017) Marketing Desire: The "Normative/Other" Male Body and the "Pure" White Female Body on the Cover Art of Cassie Edwards' Savage Dream (1990), Savage Persuasion (1991), and Savage Mists (1992) MA thesis, McGill University

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Cassie Edwards

Native American romance

(2008) "A very Glamorized Picture, that": Images of Scottish Female Herring Workers on Romance Novel Covers Social Semiotics 18.3:349-361 DOI: 10.1080/10350330802217121

Topic

(1995) Exploring the World of Romance Novels Public Libraries 34.3:144–151

Topic

Charles, John

Linz, Cathie

(2005) Romancing Your Readers: How Public Libraries Can Become More Romance Reader Friendly Public Libraries 44.1:43–48

Topic

(2008) « Tant d’amour à donner »: Le biographique, l’œuvre, et la figure de l’auteur Harlequin COnTEXTES 3: DOI: 10.4000/contextes.2413

Topic

authors

family

work

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/IYHC9382

Topic

(2023) Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 60: DOI: 10.33137/pbsc.v60i1.34677

Topic

(2016) Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company

Topic

Avon

Ellora's Cave

(2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1: DOI: 10.7202/1066945ar

Topic

(2021) New Adult Fiction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Philippines

settings

authors

McDavis-Conway, Shana

(2023) Self-conscious, unapologetic, and straight: fat protagonists in romantic fiction Fat Studies 12.2:233-242 DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2022.2047337

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fat, fatness

McKnight-Trontz, Jennifer

(2024) Filing The Serial Numbers Off: The Role Of The Author In Fanfiction Published As Original FictionFanfiction Published As Original Fiction Master of Arts, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Topic

(2002) The Look of Love: The Art of the Romance Novel New York: Princeton Architectural Press

Topic

(2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31

Topic

(2012) The Success behind the Candy-Colored Covers: An Evolutionary Perspective on Romance Novels Evolutionary Review 3.1:154-167

Topic

Fisher, Maryanne L.

Meredith, Tami M.

(2022) Evolutionary and sociocultural themes in cover art on Harlequin romance novels: A temporal analysis Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 16.2:157–175 DOI: 10.1037/ebs0000258

Topic

Mirmohamadi, Kylie

(2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224 DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2014.983786

Topic

(1994) "From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy " The Search for the Ancient Novel 391-401

Topic

(2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

Topic

sheikh romance

Sharon Kendrick

animals

metaphor/symbolism

Naber, Christine Marie

(1995) Rape myths are the theory--romance novels are the practice: The impact of exposure to images of women in popular culture PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic

psychology

Nobert, Margo

(1983) Le titre comme séduction dans le roman Harlequin: une lecture sociosémiotique Études littéraires 16.3:379–398 DOI: 10.7202/500622ar

Topic

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Gagnon, Jocelyn

Noizet, Pascale

Provost, Christiane

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2003) "In Search of Women Who Look Like Me: A Brief History of the African-American Romance " The 2000-2003 Proceedings of the SW/Texas PCA/ACA Conference 2020-2044

Topic

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

Osborne, Gwendolyn E.

(2004) ""Women Who Look Like Me": Cultural Identity and Reader Responses to African American Romance Novels " Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers 61-68

Topic

readers

love

sex/sexuality

Owen, Mairead

(1997) Re-inventing romance: Reading popular romantic fiction Women's Studies International Forum 20.4:537-546 DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(97)00042-3

Topic

(2008) The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs Munich: Prestel

Topic

Paizis, George

(1998) Love and the Novel: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Fiction Houndmills, Basingstoke: Macmillan

Topic

Parameswaran, Radhika

(2002) Reading Fictions of Romance: Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism in Postcolonial India Journal of Communication 52.4:832-851 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2002.tb02576.x

Topic

India

(2023) Algospeak and algo-design in platformed book publishing: Revolutionary creative tactics in digital paratext to circumvent content moderation AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research Paper presented at AoIR2023: The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Philadelphia, PA, USA: DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13477

Topic

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Philippines

(2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

Topic

Philips, Deborah

(1990) "Mills and Boon: The Marketing of Moonshine " Consumption, Identity, and Style: Marketing, Meanings, and the Packaging of Pleasure 139-152

Topic

Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward

Potter, Jane

(2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press

Topic

war/armed forces

Ruby M. Ayres

Berta Ruck

Florence Barclay

disability

national identity

Bettinotti, Julia

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène

Gagnon, Jocelyn

Noizet, Pascale

Provost, Christiane

(1986) La corrida de l'amour: Le Roman Harlequin Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal

Topic

(2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31

Topic

Pupipat, Apisak

(2023) Should a Book Be Judged by its Back Cover? Some Written/Formal Features as Observed in Happily- Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network 16.1:604-630

Topic

(1990) "Making Rape Romantic: A Study of Rosemary Rogers' "Steve and Ginny" Novels " Women and Violence in Literature: An Essay Collection 299-325

Topic

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul

(2012) Islam, Romance and Popular Taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat ayat cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy Indonesia and the Malay World 40.116:59-73 DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2011.648998

Topic

Indonesia

Habiburrahman El-Shirazy

Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy

Islam

Rani, Mohd. Zariat Abdul

(2014) The Conflict of Love and Islam: The Main Ingredients in the Popular Islamic Novels of Malaysia South East Asia Research 22.3:417-433 DOI: 10.5367/sear.2014.0222

Topic

Malaysia

Islam

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

Topic

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

work

YA/teenage romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

(2022) Judging a Book by its Back Cover: Spoken/Informal Register as Found in Happily-Ever-After Women’s Novel Blurbs Journal of Studies in the English Language 17.2:1–31

Topic

Short, Christopher Brown

(1996) The history of romance illustration and the romance novel cover MA thesis, Syracuse University

Topic

Petersson, Sara

Söderberg, Daniel

(2014) En berättelse tar form - en studie i hur geometrisk form på bokomslag indikerar populärlitterär genre Bachelor, Linköping University

Topic

Soler Gallo, Miguel

(2016) "El ideal de la mujer de la Sección Femenina de Falange a través de las ilustraciones de la novela rosa de los años cuarenta " Images of Women in Hispanic Culture 48-73

Topic

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

(2018) The Romance Novel Cover MA thesis, City University of New York (CUNY), Hunter College

Topic

(2007) "A Very Interesting Place: Representing Scotland in American Romance Novels " The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature 354-361

Topic

Stollenwerk, Katie Elisabeth

(2020) “I’m a Nurse, Not a Woman”: The Historical Significance of the UWM Nurse Romance Novel Collection Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Topic

history

health/medical

Marguerite Mooers Marshall

Ethel Hamill/Jean Francis Webb

Rose Dana/William Edward Daniel Ross

Rubie Saunders

Struve, Laura

(2011) Sisters of Sorts: Reading Romantic Fiction and the Bonds Among Female Readers Journal of Popular Culture 44.6:1289-1306 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2011.00901.x

Topic

readers

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

Taylor, Jessica

(2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5931.2007.00484.x

Topic

(2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1: DOI: 10.7202/1066945ar

Topic

(2004) "Les romans "Adoras" ou les nouveaux contes de fées à l’africaine " Les métamorphoses du conte 255-270

Topic

(2016) "“A Little Wildness”: Negotiating Relationships between Human and Nonhuman in Historical Romance " Creatural Fictions: Human-Animal Relationships in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature 151-171 DOI:10.1007/978-1-137-51811-8_8

Topic

Trinidad, Andrea Anne

(2023) Publishing Romance Fiction in the Philippines Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Topic

Philippines

Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia

(2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863

Topic

Van Den Heuvel, Bailey

(2023) Sexual Warfare? Clinch Covers, Stepbacks, and Historical Romance Novels in the Wake of the Golden Age of Pornography Master of Letters in English Literature, University of Glasgow

Topic

van Hattum, Fatima Y.

(2023) Orientalist Public Pedagogy: Visual Representation of Muslims in Pop Culture and Desert Romance Novels PhD, University of New Mexico

Topic

(2015) A Matter of Meta: Category Romance Fiction and the Interplay of Paratext and Library Metadata Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

Topic

Turner, Ellen

Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia

(2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24 DOI: 10.48148/ljes.v4i.24863

Topic

Luneau, Marie-Pier

(2021) The Best Romance Dime Novels on the (French-Canadian) Market: The Promotional Strategies of Police-Journal, 1944-1963 Journal of Popular Romance Studies 10: DOI: 10.70138/IYHC9382

Topic

(2023) Le temps des fascicules: Entre pratiques périodiques et pratiques livresques Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 60: DOI: 10.33137/pbsc.v60i1.34677

Topic

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

dime novels

Canada

Weaver-Zercher, Valerie

(2012) Tracing the Backstory of Amish Romance Novels Mennonite Quarterly Review 86.4:409-435

Topic

Christian romance

rural romance