Romance Scholarship DB

(2002) Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

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

Florence Barclay

Charles Garvice

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Rafael Sabatini

Daphne du Maurier

Georgette Heyer

Margaret Mitchell

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Colleen McCullough

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kanerick, Caroline

(2010) ‘A Jazzed and Patchwork Modern’: ‘future’ girls and modern masculinities in the early popular romances of Berta Ruck Women's History Review 19.5:685-702 DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2010.509147

Topic

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

fashion/clothing

war/armed forces

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Kanerick, Caroline

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(2000) A Romance Writer Gets Away with Murder Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:17–21

Topic

romantic suspense

Dodgen, Lynda

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Rapp, Adrian

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(2000) Dysfunctional Detectives and Romantic P.I.s: Impediments to the Happy Marriage of Mystery and Romance Clues: A Journal of Detection 21.1:61-72

Topic

romantic suspense

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1998) Lesbian Romance Fiction and the Plotting of Desire: Narrative Theory, Lesbian Identity, and Reading Practice Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature 17.1:65-82 DOI: 10.2307/464325

Topic

lesbian romance

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1988) Texts to Grow On: Reading Women’s Romance Fiction Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 7.2:239-259 DOI: 10.2307/463681

Topic

genre definitions

Margolies, David

(1982) Mills & Boon: guilt without sex Red Letters 14:5-13

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse