Isabel Miller

(2016) "Queer Romance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America: Snapshots of a Revolution " Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom? 389-404

Topic

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

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

lesbian romance

Katherine V. Forrest

Wallace Hamilton

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Betz, Phyllis M.

(2009) Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co

Topic

lesbian romance

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

Katherine V. Forrest

social/economic class

Radclyffe/Len Barot

Karin Kallmaker

Jennifer Fulton

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

Juhasz, Suzanne

(1994) Reading from the Heart: Women, Literature, and the Search for True Love New York: Viking

Topic

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

Charlotte Brontë

Louisa May Alcott

lesbian romance

Palmer, Paulina

(1998) "Girl Meets Girl: Changing Approaches to the Lesbian Romance " Fatal Attractions: Rescripting Romance in Contemporary Literature and Film 189-204

Topic

lesbian romance

Michelle Martin

LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

fairytales/folktales

romantic suspense

fashion/clothing

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/young adult/teenage/new adult/NA romance

African American romance

LGBTQ+ 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