Mussell, Kay
(1981) Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press
Topic
gothic romance
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
United States of America
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Augusta Jane Evans
E. D. E. N. Southworth
Margaret Mitchell
Daphne du Maurier
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Mary Stewart
Phyllis A. Whitney
Rosemary Rogers
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Grace Livingston Hill
film/movies
readers
romance scholarship
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