Robyn Donald | Romance Scholarship DB

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

Topic

science fiction/futuristic romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Rachel Lee/Sue Civil-Brown

Rosemary Carter

Penny Jordan/Caroline Courtney

Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb

Elizabeth Graham

Donna Maree Hanson

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

Topic

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

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

metaphor/symbolism

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Elizabeth Lowell

war/armed forces

Doreen Owens Malek

Penelope Williamson

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Suzanne Simmons Guntrum

Kathleen Gilles Seidel

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

Topic

Victoria Aldridge

Rosalie Henaghan

Miriam Macgregor

Talbot, Mary M. (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

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