Australia

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

Alexi, Sarah (2020) Girl, woman, spinster—‘desire, fear, ridicule’: the feminine and the failed in twentieth-century Australian women’s writing PhD, University of New South Wales

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Bellanta, Melissa (2014) A Masculine Romance: The Sentimental Bloke and Australian Culture in the War-and Early Interwar Years Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

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Cuthbert, Kate (2021) " The Australian Digital Publishing Bubble, 2012-2016: An Insider Perspective " Post-Digital Book Cultures: Australian Perspectives 115-138

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Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Dalziell, Tanya (2021) " Australia's Long Relationship with Romance " The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature 365-373

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Delamoir, Jeanette (2003) Marie Bjelke Petersen's 'virile story': Jewelled Nights, gender instability, and the bush Hecate 29.1:115-131

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cross-dressing

religion/spirituality

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

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Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

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Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2023) " Australian Fantasy, Crime and Romance Fiction in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 540-556 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.033

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Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Evans, Julie (1993) Beatrice Grimshaw and Australia - White Women in the Pacific Olive Pink Society Bulletin 5.1:34-39

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Oceania

Flesch, Juliet (1995) Love Brought to Book: A Bio-Bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Melbourne: National Centre for Australian Studies

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? Compiling a Bibliography of Twentieth Century Australian Romance Novels Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 9.3-4:170-178

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Flesch, Juliet (1996) A Labour of Love? The Story Behind the Compilation of Love Brought to Book: A Bio-bibliography of 20th Century Australian Romance Novels Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.3:182-190

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Flesch, Juliet (2007) " Love under the Coolabah: Australian Romance Publishing since 1990 " Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing 279-285

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Flesch, Juliet (2012) " The Wide Brown Land and the Big Smoke: The Setting of Australian Popular Romance " Sold by the Millions: Australia's Bestsellers 82-95

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Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

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Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

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Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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García Fernández, Aurora Fresno-Calleja, Paloma (2020) Competence, Complicity and Complexity: Hsu-Ming Teo on the Pitfalls and Nuances of Reading and Researching Popular Romance Raudem, Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 8:261-280

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romance scholarship

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

historical romance

Bennett, Tony Emmison, Michael Frow, John (1999) Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Topic

romance scholarship

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

historical romance

Garton, Stephen (2008) 'Fit Only for the Scrap Heap': Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia After 1945 Gender & History 20.1:48-67

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disability

work

family

Gelder, Ken Weaver, Rachael (2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

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

Louise Mack

metafiction

Gilbert, Pam (1993) " Dolly Fictions: Teen Romance Down Under " Texts of Desire: Essays on Fiction, Femininity and Schooling 69-86 DOI:10.4324/9781315810119

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Haynes, Roslynn (2010) Marie Bjelke Petersen’s Romances: Fulfilling the Contract, Subverting the Spirit Southerly 70.2:41-63

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Christian romance

cross-dressing

religion/spirituality

Johnson-Woods, Toni (2010) 'Adventures of a Squatter': A Colonial Male Romance Southerly 70.2:130-141

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

m/m romance

Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

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Kylie Scott

Levy, Bronwen (1987) Up From Under, or On Not Marrying the Racist Aussie Boss: Strategies for Reading Romantic Fiction Hecate 13.1:7-20

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romance scholarship

race/ethnicity

Margaret Way

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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McAlister, Jodi (2018) The literary text as historical artifact: The colonial couple in Australian romantic fiction by women, 1838-1860 Lilith: A Feminist History Journal 24:38-51

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

history

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

McAlister, Jodi (2018) “Feelings Like the Women in Books”: Declarations of Love in Australian Romance Novels, 1859–1891 Emotions: History, Culture, Society 2.1:91-112

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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McWilliam, Kelly (2009) Romance in foreign accents: Harlequin-Mills & Boon in Australia Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 23.2:137-145

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

Mirmohamadi, Kylie (2015) Love on the Land: Australian Rural Romance in Place English Studies 96.2:204-224

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O'Mahony, Lauren Murphy, Olivia (2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

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Frances Burney

Loretta Hill

O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Australian rural romance as feminist romance? Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 3.3:285-298

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O'Mahony, Lauren (2014) Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks?: Romance, Ethics and Human-Dog Relationships in a Rural Australian Novel Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

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O'Mahony, Lauren (2017) Death and the Australian Rural Romance Novel TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses 45:

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

death

O'Mahony, Lauren Murphy, Olivia (2018) From polite society to the Pilbara: The ingénue abroad in Evelina and The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots Outskirts 38:1-23

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Frances Burney

Loretta Hill

O'Mahony, Lauren (2021) " Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3

Topic

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

Rosa Praed

O'Mahony, Lauren Kate (2015) In search of feminist romance in Australian 'Chick Lit' PhD, Murdoch University

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chick lit

Riseman, Noah (2020) Intimatopias and the queering of Australian war fiction Continuum ONLINE FIRST:

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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)

work

paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

YA/teenage romance

African American romance

Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton

religion/spirituality

Judaism

Pauline Hopkins

Kathleen Thompson Norris

Lilian Warren as Kathryn Blair/Rosalind Brett/Celine Conway

Elizabeth Carfrae

Frances Shelley Wees

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

Alice Lent Covert

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Juliet Shore/Anne Vinton

Della Field, pseudonym of Fanny Howe

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

science fiction/futuristic romance

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

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

Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy/Eleanor Burford Hibbert

Tracy West/Joyce McGill/Chassie West

Sherman, Jen (2016) Reading Infrastructures in the Contemporary City: A Study of Three Public Libraries in Sydney PhD, University of Western Sydney

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Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

McAlister, Jodi Teo, Hsu-Ming (2017) " Love in Australian Romance Novels " The Popular Culture of Romantic Love in Australia 194-222

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2022) " Transported for life, transported by love: love and the Australian convict romance novel " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-15

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2023) " Love Is Not Enough: Australian Romantic Fiction from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century " The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel 97-113 DOI:10.1017/9781009090049.007

Topic

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

Rosa Praed

marriage

work

Thomas, Glen (2007) " Romance: The Perfect Creative Industry? A Case Study of Harlequin-Mills and Boon Australia " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 20-29

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Thomas, Glen (2007) " The Best Australian Romance Novelist: Emma Darcy " Beautiful Things in Popular Culture 64–78

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Thomas, Glen (2008) "And I Deliver": An Interview with Emma Darcy Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 22.1:113-126

Topic

Emma Darcy

Tokley, Anne-Marie (2008) Where is my Happy Ending and Why am I Looking for it? The Romance Myth in Contemporary Popular Australian Women’s Fiction PhD, Griffith University

Topic

chick lit

Marion Lennox

Veros, Vassiliki (2012) The Romance Reader and the Public Library Australian Library Journal 61.4:298-306

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Veros, Vassiliki (2020) The selective tradition, the role of romance fiction donations, and public library practices in New South Wales, Australia Information Research 25.2:

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Veros, Vassiliki (2020) What the Librarians Did: The Marginalisation of Romance Fiction Through the Practices of Public Librarianship PhD, University of Technology, Sydney

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Veros, Vassiliki (2023) Nobody Puts Romance Fiction in the Corner: Public Librarians in New South Wales and Their Dalliance with Romance Fiction Journal of Popular Romance Studies 12:

Topic

Gelder, Ken Weaver, Rachael (2010) Louise Mack and Colonial Pseudo Literature Southerly 70.2:82-95

Topic

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

Louise Mack

metafiction

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim (2011) " Women, Akubras and Ereaders: Romance Fiction and Australian Publishing " The Return of Print?: Contemporary Australian Publishing 67-87

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) Genre Worlds and Popular Fiction: The Case of Twenty-First-Century Australian Romance Journal of Popular Culture 51.4:997-1015

Topic

Driscoll, Beth Fletcher, Lisa Wilkins, Kim Carter, David (2018) The Publishing Ecosystems of Contemporary Australian Genre Fiction Creative Industries Journal 11.2:203-221

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa Driscoll, Beth Wilkins, Kim (2018) What is Australian Popular Fiction? Australian Literary Studies 33.4:1-11

Topic

Topic

Fletcher, Lisa McAlister, Jodi Temple, Kurt Williams, Kathleen (2019) #loveyourshelfie: Mills & Boon books and how to find them Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 11.1:

Topic

Zwar, Jan Lawson, Airlie (2021) Success Story - International Rights Sales of Australian- Authored Books: Case Studies Australia: Macquarie University

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