Sandra Brown

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
Krentz, Jayne Ann (1992) Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Topic
Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle
readers
gender
authors
emotions
myth
Cathie Linz
Linda Barlow
metaphor/symbolism
linguistics
happy ending
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
Laura Kinsale
psychology
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
feminism
Daphne Clair
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Robyn Donald
Anne Stuart
love
Elizabeth Lowell
war/armed forces
Mary Jo Putney
virginity
Doreen Owens Malek
Brittany Young
sex/sexuality
Penelope Williamson
trash/literary and or intellectual quality
Judith Arnold
work
Stella Cameron
Sandra Brown
Suzanne Simmons Guntrum
Diana Palmer
Kathleen Gilles Seidel
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
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
Topic
love
Lisa Kleypas
Christina Dodd
Linda Howard
Catherine George
Isabelle Holland
Jude Deveraux
Amanda Scott
Catherine Coulter
Maggie Osborne/Margaret St. George
Karen Ranney
Sandra Brown
Nicole Jordan
LaVyrle Spencer
Penelope Williamson
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
feminism
erotic romance
Emma Holly
Rachel Bo
marriage
Mardi Ballou
Ellora's Cave
Samantha Kane
LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors