Rollins, Shannon Marie (2019) Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress PhD, University of Edinburgh Topic steampunk fashion/clothing gender Gail Carriger feminism race/ethnicity Adrienne Kress
Patai, Daphne Ingram, Angela (1993) "Fantasy and Identity: The Double Life of a Victorian Sexual Radical " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 265-302 Topic gender paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance Irene Clyde Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Beers, Laura (2011) Feminism and Sexuality in Ellen Wilkinson's Fiction Parliamentary Affairs 64.2:248–262 DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsq060 Topic socialism and/or communism work gender marriage sex/sexuality Ellen Wilkinson Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) history
Fox, Pamela A. (1993) "Ethel Carnie Holdsworth's "Revolt of the Gentle": Romance and the Politics of Resistance in Working-Class Women's Writing " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 57-74 Topic socialism and/or communism Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Waters, Chris (1993) "New Women and Socialist-Feminist Fiction: The Novels of Isabella Ford and Katharine Bruce Glasier " Rediscovering Forgotten Radicals: British Women Writers 1889-1939 25-42 Topic socialism and/or communism LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Katharine Bruce Glasier