This article repeatedly gives McAleer as the author of Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, when the author of that work is actually Alison Light. There is, in fact, one citation which does give Light as the author of that book. McAleer wrote Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon.
There are times when quotations appear with no citation given at all. In addition, sometimes there are language issues e.g. "From the 1960s on we are overcrowded by Betty Neels’ nursing heroine" (188). I'm not sure the author ever does answer the question in the title about who is more fragile, but the impression is perhaps inadvertently given that "detractors" of Mills & Boon think heroines are crush-resistant, since they "believe these fiction narratives perpetuate the stereotype of the doormat woman, taken by a rude hero, crushed in his arms and transformed into a different type of doormat" (181).
This article repeatedly gives McAleer as the author of Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars, when the author of that work is actually Alison Light. There is, in fact, one citation which does give Light as the author of that book. McAleer wrote Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon.
There are times when quotations appear with no citation given at all. In addition, sometimes there are language issues e.g. "From the 1960s on we are overcrowded by Betty Neels’ nursing heroine" (188). I'm not sure the author ever does answer the question in the title about who is more fragile, but the impression is perhaps inadvertently given that "detractors" of Mills & Boon think heroines are crush-resistant, since they "believe these fiction narratives perpetuate the stereotype of the doormat woman, taken by a rude hero, crushed in his arms and transformed into a different type of doormat" (181).