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Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Bettinotti, Julia Provost, Christiane (1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Violet Winspear

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Bettinotti, Julia Provost, Christiane (1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Violet Winspear

Boulet, Yvan (1983) Ces petits romans si agréables à lire Études littéraires 16.3:363–378

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Franco, Jean (1986) " Plotting Women: Popular Narratives for Women in the United States and in Latin America " Reinventing the Americas: Comparative Studies of Literature of the United States and Spanish America 249–268 DOI:10.1215/9780822385462-010

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Franco, Jean (1986) " The Incorporation of Women: A Comparison of North American and Mexican Popular Narrative " Studies in Entertainment: Critical Approaches to Mass Culture 119-138

Topic

social/economic class

Harlequin Mills & Boon

wealth/prosperity

Grescoe, Paul (1996) The Merchants of Venus: Inside Harlequin and the Empire of Romance Vancouver: Raincoast

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Barbara Cartland

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Judith McNaught

Violet Winspear

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

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

Vinson, James Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

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

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

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

Bédard-Cazabon, Hélène Bettinotti, Julia Provost, Christiane (1983) Harlequin: Quand l'amour est une guerre Etudes Littéraires 16.3:399-427

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Violet Winspear

Snitow, Ann Barr (1979) Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women is Different Radical History Review 20:141-161

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

religion/spirituality

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

Vinson, James Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

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

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham