Rhoda Broughton

Anderson, Rachel
(1974) The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love London: Hodder and Stoughton
Topic
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
religion/spirituality
Charlotte M. Yonge
Christian romance
Ruth Lamb
Rhoda Broughton
Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys
Ouida
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi
Margaret Baillie-Saunders
Evelyn Everett-Green
Elinor Glyn
Florence Barclay
Ethel M. Dell
Marie Corelli
Berta Ruck
Kathlyn Rhodes
Robert Hitchens
E. M. Hull
sheikh romance
Elizabeth Hoy
Violet Winspear
Jennifer Ames
Ruby M. Ayres
Netta Muskett
Annie S. Swan
Margaret Pedler
Maysie Greig
Gilbert Frankau
Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander
Denise Robins
Ursula Bloom
Sophie Cole
medical romance
Lucilla Andrews
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Julia Davis
settings
food, drink
fashion/clothing
Cadogan, Mary
(1994) And Then Their Hearts Stood Still: An Exuberant Look at Romantic Fiction Past and Present London: Macmillan
Topic
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Mary Stewart
M. M. Kaye
Charlotte M. Yonge
Augusta Jane Evans
Rhoda Broughton
Marie Corelli
Florence Barclay
Annie S. Swan
Barbara Cartland
Judith McNaught
Mary Webb
Ouida
Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys
Elinor Glyn
Ethel M. Dell
romances in magazines and newspapers
Charlotte Brontë
war/armed forces
disability
Daphne du Maurier
Colleen McCullough
E. M. Hull
Violet Winspear
Flora Annie Steel
Berta Ruck
Georgette Heyer
Jane Aiken Hodge
Sylvia Andrews
Anthony Hope
Baroness Orczy
Margaret Mitchell
Mabel Barnes Grundy
Ruby M. Ayres
Denise Robins
Maysie Greig
Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Radclyffe Hall
Janet Dailey
Lucilla Andrews
Jane Arbor
Caroline Anderson