Linda Howard

(2007) "Female Enfranchisement and the Popular Romance: Employing an Indian Perspective " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 148-173

Topic

India

readers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(2012) "Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Fiction " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 153-163

Topic

war/armed forces

United States of America

(2014) Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Henderson, Lesley

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1990) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (2nd edition) Chicago: St. James Press

Topic

historical romance

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

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Sandra Brown

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Grace Livingston Hill

Margery Hilton

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roumelia Lane

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Modleski, Tania

(1998) My Life as a Romance Writer Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 4.9:134-144

Topic

BDSM

romance scholarship

Jennifer Crusie

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

gender

Linda Howard

evolutionary psychology

sex/sexuality

feminism

Moody, Stephanie

(2010) "Women's Leadership in Romance Fiction Scholarship " Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook 941-947 DOI:10.4135/9781412979344.n98

Topic

Samuel Richardson

Jane Austen

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Georgette Heyer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

(2011) "The Love Life of a Fact " How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge 429-453

Topic

gender

evolutionary psychology

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Vasudevan, Aruna

Henderson, Lesley

(1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Baroness Orczy

Diana Palmer

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Mary Renault

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Denise Robins

Rosemary Rogers

Berta Ruck

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Veldman-Genz, Carole

(2012) "The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 108-120

Wardrop, Stephanie

(1995) The Heroine is Being Beaten: Freud, Sadomasochism, and Reading the Romance Style: A Quarterly Journal of Aesthetics, Poetics, Stylistics, and Literary Criticism 29.3:459-473

Topic

Kathleen Woodiwiss

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse