Wiegand, Wayne A. (2015) A Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library Oxford: Oxford University Press Topic libraries/librarians
Teo, Hsu-Ming (2021) "Love and romance novels " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 454-484 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-21 Topic love sex/sexuality history sociology feminism Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Samuel Richardson Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë religion/spirituality E. M. Hull Kathlyn Rhodes Barbara Cartland Georgette Heyer Harlequin Mills & Boon historical romance Jennifer Crusie wealth/prosperity
Belsey, Catherine (1998) Popular Fiction and the Feminine Masquerade European Journal of English Studies 2.3:343-358 DOI: 10.1080/13825579808574422 Topic gender Marion Smith Collins fashion/clothing metafiction Harlequin Mills & Boon Shakespeare Daphne du Maurier marriage
Allan, Jonathan A. (2021) "Gender and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 428-453 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-20 Topic gender sex/sexuality pornography LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors lesbian romance m/m romance
Harman, Sarah Jones, Bethan (2013) Fifty shades of ghey: Snark fandom and the figure of the anti-fan Sexualities 16.8:951–968 DOI: 10.1177/1363460713508887 Topic Fifty Shades readers trash/literary and or intellectual quality BDSM
McCann, Hannah Roach, Catherine M. (2021) "Sex and sexuality " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 411-427 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-19 Topic sex/sexuality pornography feminism gender