Romance Scholarship DB

(2025) Psycho-social Development of the Main Characters in the Novels Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers and Cantik itu Luka by Eka Kurniawan: A Comparative Study INTERACTION: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa 12.1:892–905 DOI: 10.36232/interactionjournal.v12i1.3163

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Francine Rivers

Puspita, Ida

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Egidia, Clara

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Kamblé, Jayashree

(2025) The Women Who Changed the American Mass-Market Romance Genre: BIPOC Editors, Authors, and Category Romance Novels from 1980 to 1988 Contemporary Women's Writing 19: DOI: 10.1093/cww/vpaf005

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Vivian Stephens (also wrote as Angela Vivian with co-author Angela Dew)

United States of America

Rosalind Welles - pen name of Elsie B. Washington

Barbara Stephens

Marisa de Zavala/Ana Lisa de Leon/Rachel Scott/Celina Rios Mullan

Lia Sanders - pen name of Angela Jackson and Sandra Jackson-Opoku

Valerie Flournoy

(2025) The Love Hypothesis: Exploring the Consumption of Romance Novels PhD, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

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Burkes, Jordan

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Sousa, Denise Dias de Carvalho

(2014) O saber e o sabor da literatura cor-de-rosa : a leitura dos romances das séries Sabrina, Julia e Bianca Doutorado em Teorias da Literatura, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Sousa, Denise Dias de Carvalho

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(2019) Queer Loves, Queer Spaces: Reading Spatiality in Contemporary Indian ‘Gay Romance’ Novels in English M. Phil thesis, Jadavpur University

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LGBTQ+ characters, readers and/or authors

(2025) Embodied Histories: New Womanhood in Vienna, 1894–1934 Chicago: University of Chicago Press

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

E. Marlitt/Eugenie John

Hedwig Courths-Mahler