Anderson, Rachel
(1974) The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love London: Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
religion/spirituality
Charlotte M. Yonge
Christian romance
Ruth Lamb
Rhoda Broughton
Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys
Ouida
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi
Margaret Baillie-Saunders
Evelyn Everett-Green
Elinor Glyn
Florence Barclay
Ethel M. Dell
Marie Corelli
Berta Ruck
Kathlyn Rhodes
Robert Hitchens
E. M. Hull
sheikh romance
Elizabeth Hoy
Violet Winspear
Jennifer Ames
Ruby M. Ayres
Netta Muskett
Annie S. Swan
Margaret Pedler
Maysie Greig
Gilbert Frankau
Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander
Denise Robins
Ursula Bloom
Sophie Cole
medical romance
Lucilla Andrews
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Julia Davis
settings
food, drink
fashion/clothing