Samuel Richardson

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
Ramsdell, Kristin
(2018) Encyclopedia of Romance Fiction Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood
Topic
Publishing
paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance
comics/manga
Christian romance
marriage
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Barbara Cartland
Janet Dailey
Daphne du Maurier
Ethel M. Dell
erotic romance
feminism
science fiction/futuristic romance
Elinor Glyn
Margaret Mitchell
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Georgette Heyer
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
historical romance
E. M. Hull
romance scholarship
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
libraries/librarians
romantic suspense
Samuel Richardson
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Bertrice Small
Mary Stewart
translation
Patricia Veryan
Phyllis A. Whitney
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Woodiwiss
race/ethnicity
Regis, Pamela
(2003) A Natural History of the Romance Novel Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
genre definitions
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Samuel Richardson
Jane Austen
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Charlotte Brontë
Anthony Trollope
E. M. Forster
Georgette Heyer
Mary Stewart
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Janet Dailey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
E. M. Hull
Regis, Pamela
(2011) "Female genre fiction in the twentieth century " The Cambridge History of the American Novel 847-860 DOI:10.1017/CHOL9780521899079.056
Topic
genre definitions
Samuel Richardson
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
E. D. E. N. Southworth
religion/spirituality
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Faith Baldwin
Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith
LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Jennifer Crusie
Beverly Jenkins
Ann Herendeen
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
marriage