Potter, Jane (2005) Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918 Oxford: Clarendon Press Topic war/armed forces Ruby M. Ayres Berta Ruck Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward Florence Barclay disability gender social/economic class paratext Bessie Marchant Janet Laing Marie Belloc Lowndes religion/spirituality national identity
Hipsky, Martin (2011) Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press Topic Marie Corelli Ethel M. Dell E. M. Hull Mary Ward/Mrs. Humphry Ward Baroness Orczy Florence Barclay Elinor Glyn Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)