Holmes, Diana (2006) Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France: Love Stories Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic history France religion/spirituality Christian romance Delly Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) genre definitions gender readers Georges Ohnet Maryan, pen name of Marie Cadiou Marcelle Tinayre Colette Max du Veuzit Magali, pen name of Jeanne Philbert Harlequin Mills & Boon sex/sexuality lesbian romance Marine Rambach and Anne Rousseau LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Holmes, Diana (2010) The Comfortable Reader: Romantic Bestsellers and Critical Disdain French Cultural Studies 21.4:287-296 DOI: 10.1177/0957155810378576 Topic France trash/literary and or intellectual quality Marc Levy Anna Gavalda readers community national identity
Holmes, Diana (2022) "Plaisirs d'amour: Love and popular fiction in contemporary France " Imagining "We" in the Age of "I": Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture Topic France