O'Mahony, Lauren (2021) "Australian romance fiction " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 72-96 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-3 Topic Australia national identity gender Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined) Harlequin Mills & Boon Rosa Praed Marie Bjelke Petersen settings Emma Darcy readers libraries/librarians chick lit Anita Heiss race/ethnicity