Regis, Pamela (2021) "The evolution of the American romance novel " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 51-71 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-2 Topic United States of America Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) romance scholarship Charles Brockden Brown Sukey Vickery Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Maria Child E. D. E. N. Southworth Louisa May Alcott Frances Watkins Harper race/ethnicity Onoto Watanna/Winnifred Eaton Jean Webster Kathleen Thompson Norris Viña Delmar family Claire Morgan/Patricia Highsmith LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors