Linda Howard | Romance Scholarship DB

Ebert, Teresa L. (2014) Hegel's “picture-thinking” as the interpretive logic of the popular Textual Practice 28.1:9-33

Topic

capitalism/business

religion/spirituality

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

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

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

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

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

Lucilla Andrews

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

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

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kamble, Jayashree (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

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

fashion/clothing

Kamble, Jayashree (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

national identity

Suzanne Brockmann

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Kamblé, Jayashree (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

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

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

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

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

romance scholarship

Jennifer Crusie

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

evolutionary psychology

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Georgette Heyer

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Janet Evanovich

Jennifer Crusie

romance scholarship

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

Topic

evolutionary psychology

romance scholarship

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

Lucilla Andrews

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

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

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

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