Scotland

Fowler, Bridget
(1991) The Alienated Reader: Women and Romantic Literature in the Twentieth Century Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf
Topic
social/economic class
gender
Samuel Richardson
capitalism/business
religion/spirituality
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
readers
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Catherine Cookson
Publishing
romances in magazines and newspapers
Harlequin Mills & Boon
work
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Barbara Cartland
fairytales/folktales
family
feminism
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
marriage
Scotland
sex/sexuality