Rosa Praed

Dalziell, Tanya

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

Topic

romance scholarship

national identity

Joyce Dingwell/Kate Starr

O'Mahony, Lauren

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

Topic

national identity

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

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Marie Bjelke Petersen

libraries/librarians

Sutherland, John

(2009) The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Second Edition) London: Routledge

Topic

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

Florence Barclay

Charles Garvice

(2014) “We have to learn to love imperially”: Love in Late Colonial and Federation Australian Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 4.2:

(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

(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)

Marie Bjelke Petersen