Valerie Belgrave | Romance Scholarship DB

Belgrave, Valerie (1990) " On Combining Batik Art and Novel Writing " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 317-324

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Valerie Belgrave

historical romance

national identity

Belgrave, Valerie (1990) " Thoughts on the Choice of Theme and Approach in Writing Ti Marie " Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the First International Conference 325-327

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Valerie Belgrave

historical romance

Bryce, Jane Dako, Kari (1993) Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women's Writing Wasafiri 17:10-14

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Valerie Belgrave

Bryce, Jane (1994) 'A World of Caribbean Romance': Reformulating the Legend of Love (or: 'Can a Caress Be Culturally Specific?') Caribbean Studies 27.3/4:346–366

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Valerie Belgrave

Bryce, Jane Dako, Kari (1993) Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism: Romantic Fiction as a Subversive Strain in Black Women's Writing Wasafiri 17:10-14

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Valerie Belgrave

Ficke, Sarah H. (2021) " The historical romance " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 118-140 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-5

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historical romance

Georgette Heyer

Barbara Cartland

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Valerie Belgrave

fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

African American romance

Beverly Jenkins

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Forbes, Curdella (2006) X Press Publications: Pop Culture, “Pop Lit” and Caribbean Literary Criticism: An Essay of Provocation Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 4.1:

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Valerie Belgrave

Morgan, Paula (2003) “Like Bush Fire in My Arms”: Interrogating the World of Caribbean Romance Journal of Popular Culture 36.4:804-827

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Valerie Belgrave

Lucille Colleton

Annette Charles

Romney, Rebecca (2021) The Romance Novel in English: A Survey in Rare Books, 1769-1999 : Type Punch Matrix

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Harlequin Mills & Boon

historical romance

Christian romance

romantic suspense

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

YA/teenage romance

African American romance

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Elizabeth Inchbald

national identity

May Agnes Fleming

Laura Jean Libbey

religion/spirituality

Pauline Hopkins

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

Barbara Cartland

Laura Lou Brookman

Kathleen Thompson Norris

romances in magazines and newspapers

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

medical romance

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Lydia Maria Child

Charlotte M. Yonge

Susa Young Gates

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Rosemary Rogers

June Lund Shiplett

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Valerie Belgrave

Beverly Jenkins

Georgette Heyer

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Maureen Wartski

Augusta Jane Evans

Florence Barclay

Charlotte Brontë

Virginia Coffman

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Phyllis A. Whitney

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Rita Clay Estrada

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Paula Christian

Ann Allen Shockley

Katherine V. Forrest

Smith, Faith (1999) " Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad " Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation 163-182

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Valerie Belgrave

national identity