Bertrice Small

Charles, John
Mosley, Shelley
(2007) Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers
Topic
Shana Abé
Cherry Adair
Catherine Anderson
Judith Arnold
Adele Ashworth
Patti Berg
Elizabeth Bevarly
Rosanne Bittner
Stephanie Bond
Elizabeth Boyle
Pamela Britton
Suzanne Brockmann
Connie Brockway
Lisa Cach
Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Susannah Carleton
Liz Carlyle
Emily Carmichael
Maureen Child
Jennifer Crusie
Claudia Dain
Geralyn Dawson
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Alice Duncan
Elisabeth Fairchild
Diane Farr
Colleen Faulkner
Jo Ann Ferguson
Christine Flynn
Gaelen Foley
Gwynne Forster
Lori Foster
Roz Denny Fox
Barbara Freethy
Judith E. French
Patricia Gaffney
Lisa Gardner
Roberta Gellis
Tess Gerritsen
Rachel Gibson
Elizabeth Grayson
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Leigh Greenwood
Shirley Hailstock
Robin Lee Hatcher
Lorraine Heath
Candice Hern
Sandra Hill
Vicki Hinze
Kate Huntington
Eloisa James
Susan Johnson
Nicole Jordan
Julie Kenner
Lynn Kerstan
April Kihlstrom
Sandra Kitt
Patricia Knoll
Betina Krahn
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Susan Krinard
Leslie LaFoy
Jill Marie Landis
Cathie Linz
Merline Lovelace
Katie MacAlister
Debbie Macomber
Annette Mahon
Sandra Marton
Amanda McCabe
Judi McCoy
May McGoldrick
Teresa Medeiros
Linda Lael Miller
Mary Alice Monroe
Brenda Novak
Janeen O'Kerry
Kayla Perrin
Carly Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Lisa Plumley
Mary Jo Putney
Tara Taylor Quinn
Francis Ray
Jaclyn Reding
Emilie Richards
Evelyn Richardson
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Lauren Royal
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Regina Scott
Kathryn Shay
Christina Skye
Bertrice Small
Tina St. John
Deb Stover
Sharon Swann
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Jane Toombs
Pat Warren
Sherri WhiteFeather
Susan Wiggs
Rebecca York
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve
Clare, Lindsay
Youmans, Madeleine
(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004
Topic
metaphor/symbolism
erotic romance
gender
sex/sexuality
linguistics
Shirlee Busbee
Julie Garwood
Roberta Gellis
Johanna Lindsey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Bertrice Small
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Elizabeth Lowell
Emma Merritt
Fayrene Preston
Kasey Stuart
Linda Turner
virginity
food, drink
war/armed forces
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
work
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
Ruby M. Ayres
Faith Baldwin
Florence Barclay
Betty Beaty
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Sandra Brown
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Barbara Cartland
Catherine Cookson
Marie Corelli
Janet Dailey
Iris Danbury
Barbara Delinsky
Ethel M. Dell
Viña Delmar
Jude Deveraux
Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Maud Diver
Jane Donnelly
Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy Eden
Eleanor Farnes
Jeffrey Farnol
Charles Garvice
Roberta Gellis
Elinor Glyn
Maysie Greig
Anne Hampson
Georgette Heyer
Robert Hitchens
Grace Livingston Hill
Margery Hilton
Jane Aiken Hodge
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Linda Howard
Susan Howatch
Elizabeth Hoy
E. M. Hull
Elizabeth Hunter
Iris Johansen
Susan Johnson
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
Anne Mather
Patricia Matthews
Anne Maybury
Colleen McCullough
Judith McNaught
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Fern Michaels
Margaret Mitchell
Netta Muskett
Betty Neels
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Baroness Orczy
Diana Palmer
Margaret Pargeter
Mary Renault
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Francine Rivers
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Denise Robins
Rosemary Rogers
Margaret Rome
Berta Ruck
Rafael Sabatini
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Alexandra Sellers
Anya Seton
Valerie Sherwood
Bertrice Small
LaVyrle Spencer
Danielle Steel
Mary Stewart
Rebecca Stratton
Essie Summers
Annie S. Swan
Kay Thorpe
Patricia Veryan
Lucy Walker
Margaret Way
Anne Weale
Jean Webster
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
Ruby M. Ayres
Faith Baldwin
Mary Balogh
Florence Barclay
Sandra Brown
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Shirlee Busbee
Barbara Cartland
Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest
Marie Corelli
Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney
Janet Dailey
Emma Darcy
Barbara Delinsky
Ethel M. Dell
Jude Deveraux
Robyn Donald
Jeffrey Farnol
Charles Garvice
Roberta Gellis
Elinor Glyn
Maysie Greig
Radclyffe Hall
Anne Hampson
Georgette Heyer
Jane Aiken Hodge
Linda Howard
Elizabeth Hoy
Iris Johansen
Susan Johnson
M. M. Kaye
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Charlotte Lamb
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Johanna Lindsey
Elizabeth Lowell
Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie
Anne Mather
Patricia Matthews
Lindsay McKenna
Judith McNaught
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Fern Michaels
Linda Lael Miller
Margaret Mitchell
Carole Mortimer
Netta Muskett
Susan Napier
Betty Neels
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
Bertrice Small
LaVyrle Spencer
Mary Stewart
Rebecca Stratton
Essie Summers
Annie S. Swan
Kay Thorpe
Sylvia Thorpe
Karen van der Zee
Patricia Veryan
Lucy Walker
Sheila Walsh
Margaret Way
Anne Weale
Jean Webster
Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth
Phyllis A. Whitney
Violet Winspear
Sara Wood
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
Ruby M. Ayres
Faith Baldwin
Florence Barclay
Betty Beaty
Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Sandra Brown
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Barbara Cartland
Catherine Cookson
Marie Corelli
Janet Dailey
Iris Danbury
Barbara Delinsky
Ethel M. Dell
Viña Delmar
Jude Deveraux
Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr
Maud Diver
Jane Donnelly
Daphne du Maurier
Dorothy Eden
Eleanor Farnes
Jeffrey Farnol
Charles Garvice
Roberta Gellis
Elinor Glyn
Maysie Greig
Anne Hampson
Georgette Heyer
Robert Hitchens
Grace Livingston Hill
Margery Hilton
Jane Aiken Hodge
Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert
Linda Howard
Susan Howatch
Elizabeth Hoy
E. M. Hull
Elizabeth Hunter
Iris Johansen
Susan Johnson
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
Anne Mather
Patricia Matthews
Anne Maybury
Colleen McCullough
Judith McNaught
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Fern Michaels
Margaret Mitchell
Netta Muskett
Betty Neels
Kathleen Thompson Norris
Kate Norway/Olive Norton
Baroness Orczy
Diana Palmer
Margaret Pargeter
Mary Renault
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Francine Rivers
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Denise Robins
Rosemary Rogers
Margaret Rome
Berta Ruck
Rafael Sabatini
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Alexandra Sellers
Anya Seton
Valerie Sherwood
Bertrice Small
LaVyrle Spencer
Danielle Steel
Mary Stewart
Rebecca Stratton
Essie Summers
Annie S. Swan
Kay Thorpe
Patricia Veryan
Lucy Walker
Margaret Way
Anne Weale
Jean Webster
Phyllis A. Whitney
Kathleen Winsor
Violet Winspear
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Charles, John
Mosley, Shelley
(2007) Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance Writers Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishers
Topic
Shana Abé
Cherry Adair
Catherine Anderson
Judith Arnold
Adele Ashworth
Patti Berg
Elizabeth Bevarly
Rosanne Bittner
Stephanie Bond
Elizabeth Boyle
Pamela Britton
Suzanne Brockmann
Connie Brockway
Lisa Cach
Laurie Schnebly Campbell
Susannah Carleton
Liz Carlyle
Emily Carmichael
Maureen Child
Jennifer Crusie
Claudia Dain
Geralyn Dawson
Eileen Dreyer/Kathleen Korbel
Alice Duncan
Elisabeth Fairchild
Diane Farr
Colleen Faulkner
Jo Ann Ferguson
Christine Flynn
Gaelen Foley
Gwynne Forster
Lori Foster
Roz Denny Fox
Barbara Freethy
Judith E. French
Patricia Gaffney
Lisa Gardner
Roberta Gellis
Tess Gerritsen
Rachel Gibson
Elizabeth Grayson
Jennifer Greene/Jeanne Grant/Jessica Massey/Alison Hart
Leigh Greenwood
Shirley Hailstock
Robin Lee Hatcher
Lorraine Heath
Candice Hern
Sandra Hill
Vicki Hinze
Kate Huntington
Eloisa James
Susan Johnson
Nicole Jordan
Julie Kenner
Lynn Kerstan
April Kihlstrom
Sandra Kitt
Patricia Knoll
Betina Krahn
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Susan Krinard
Leslie LaFoy
Jill Marie Landis
Cathie Linz
Merline Lovelace
Katie MacAlister
Debbie Macomber
Annette Mahon
Sandra Marton
Amanda McCabe
Judi McCoy
May McGoldrick
Teresa Medeiros
Linda Lael Miller
Mary Alice Monroe
Brenda Novak
Janeen O'Kerry
Kayla Perrin
Carly Phillips
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Lisa Plumley
Mary Jo Putney
Tara Taylor Quinn
Francis Ray
Jaclyn Reding
Emilie Richards
Evelyn Richardson
Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb
Lauren Royal
Ruth Wind/Barbara Samuel/Barbara O'Neal
Regina Scott
Kathryn Shay
Christina Skye
Bertrice Small
Tina St. John
Deb Stover
Sharon Swann
Vicki Lewis Thompson
Jane Toombs
Pat Warren
Sherri WhiteFeather
Susan Wiggs
Rebecca York
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve
Clare, Lindsay
Youmans, Madeleine
(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004
Topic
metaphor/symbolism
erotic romance
gender
sex/sexuality
linguistics
Shirlee Busbee
Julie Garwood
Roberta Gellis
Johanna Lindsey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Bertrice Small
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Elizabeth Lowell
Emma Merritt
Fayrene Preston
Kasey Stuart
Linda Turner
virginity
food, drink
war/armed forces
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
work
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
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
Ruby M. Ayres
Faith Baldwin
Mary Balogh
Florence Barclay
Sandra Brown
Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook
Shirlee Busbee
Barbara Cartland
Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest
Marie Corelli
Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney
Janet Dailey
Emma Darcy
Barbara Delinsky
Ethel M. Dell
Jude Deveraux
Robyn Donald
Jeffrey Farnol
Charles Garvice
Roberta Gellis
Elinor Glyn
Maysie Greig
Radclyffe Hall
Anne Hampson
Georgette Heyer
Jane Aiken Hodge
Linda Howard
Elizabeth Hoy
Iris Johansen
Susan Johnson
M. M. Kaye
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Charlotte Lamb
Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay
Johanna Lindsey
Elizabeth Lowell
Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie
Anne Mather
Patricia Matthews
Lindsay McKenna
Judith McNaught
Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz
Fern Michaels
Linda Lael Miller
Margaret Mitchell
Carole Mortimer
Netta Muskett
Susan Napier
Betty Neels
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
Bertrice Small
LaVyrle Spencer
Mary Stewart
Rebecca Stratton
Essie Summers
Annie S. Swan
Kay Thorpe
Sylvia Thorpe
Karen van der Zee
Patricia Veryan
Lucy Walker
Sheila Walsh
Margaret Way
Anne Weale
Jean Webster
Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth
Phyllis A. Whitney
Violet Winspear
Sara Wood
Kathleen Woodiwiss
Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham
Patthey-Chavez, G. Genevieve
Clare, Lindsay
Youmans, Madeleine
(1996) Watery Passion: The Struggle between Hegemony and Sexual Liberation in Erotic Fiction for Women Discourse and Society 7.1:77-106 DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007001004
Topic
metaphor/symbolism
erotic romance
gender
sex/sexuality
linguistics
Shirlee Busbee
Julie Garwood
Roberta Gellis
Johanna Lindsey
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
Bertrice Small
Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown
Elizabeth Lowell
Emma Merritt
Fayrene Preston
Kasey Stuart
Linda Turner
virginity
food, drink
war/armed forces
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
work