Robyn Donald

Hanson, Donna Maree

(2022) Romance fiction as a bridge to understanding changing gender roles in society PhD in Creative Writing, University of Canberra

Topic

readers

authors

feminism

gender

science fiction/futuristic romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Darynda Jones

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Daphne Clair

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

(1992) Women's romantic fiction: a study of three New Zealand Mills and Boon authors MA thesis, University of Auckland

Topic

(1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

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

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

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

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

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)

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Diana Palmer

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

McAlpine, Rachel

(1998) The Passionate Pen: New Zealand’s Romance Writers Talk to Rachel McAlpine Christchurch, New Zealand: Hazard Press

Topic

(1997) "‘An Explosion Deep inside Her’: Women’s Desire and Popular Romance Fiction " Language and Desire: Encoding Sex, Romance, and Intimacy 106-122

Topic

Harlequin Mills & Boon

(1994) Twentieth-Century Romance and Historical Writers (3rd edition) London: St. James Press

Topic

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Mary Burchell, pen name of Ida Cook

Shirlee Busbee

Barbara Cartland

Fay Chandos/Jan Tempest

Marie Corelli

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle

Charlotte Lamb

Roberta Leigh/Rachel Lindsay

Johanna Lindsey

Elizabeth Lowell

Jean S. MacLeod/Catherine Airlie

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

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

Doreen Hornsblow as Sally Wentworth

Mary Lutyens/Esther Wyndham