Jane Aiken Hodge

(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

Charlotte M. Yonge

Augusta Jane Evans

Rhoda Broughton

Florence Barclay

Barbara Cartland

Judith McNaught

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

romances in magazines and newspapers

Charlotte Brontë

war/armed forces

Daphne du Maurier

Colleen McCullough

Violet Winspear

Flora Annie Steel

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Margaret Mitchell

Mabel Barnes Grundy

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Lucilla Andrews

Caroline Anderson

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

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

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

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

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

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Barbara Delinsky

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Robert Hitchens

Grace Livingston Hill

Jane Aiken Hodge

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Elizabeth Hunter

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Laura Jean Libbey

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Colleen McCullough

Judith McNaught

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

Alexandra Sellers

Valerie Sherwood

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

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

Florence Barclay

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Barbara Delinsky

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Jane Aiken Hodge

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Lindsay McKenna

Judith McNaught

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Linda Lael Miller

Margaret Mitchell

Carole Mortimer

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Emilie Richards

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Francine Rivers

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Rosemary Rogers

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

LaVyrle Spencer

Rebecca Stratton

Karen van der Zee

Patricia Veryan

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Phyllis A. Whitney

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham

Kirkpatrick, D. L.

(1982) Twentieth Century Romance and Gothic Writers Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company

Topic

Jane Aiken Hodge

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Lucilla Andrews

Elizabeth Ashton

Florence Barclay

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Barbara Cartland

Catherine Cookson

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Daphne du Maurier

Charles Garvice

Georgette Heyer

Grace Livingston Hill

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Patricia Matthews

Barbara Michaels a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters a.k.a. Barbara Mertz

Margaret Mitchell

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

Margaret Pargeter

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Rosemary Rogers

Rafael Sabatini

Rebecca Stratton

Patricia Veryan

Phyllis A. Whitney

Kathleen Winsor

Violet Winspear

Kathleen Woodiwiss

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham