Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Romney, Rebecca

(2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

Topic

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

historical romance

Christian romance

romantic suspense

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

YA/teenage romance

African American romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Elizabeth Inchbald

national identity

May Agnes Fleming

Laura Jean Libbey

religion/spirituality

Pauline Hopkins

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Barbara Cartland

Laura Lou Brookman

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

medical romance

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Lydia Maria Child

Charlotte M. Yonge

Susa Young Gates

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Rosemary Rogers

June Lund Shiplett

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Valerie Belgrave

Beverly Jenkins

Georgette Heyer

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Maureen Wartski

Augusta Jane Evans

Florence Barclay

Charlotte Brontë

Virginia Coffman

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Rita Clay Estrada

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Paula Christian

Ann Allen Shockley

Katherine V. Forrest