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 ;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.
-;Gerlitz, Laura Michelle, 2019. : "Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory", MA thesis, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. ["This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years [1949-1965] [...]. The resulting patterns will be connected to reader’s advisory as appeal factors in successful book selection by readers."] [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f51462bd-47aa-48ae-8fe7-57db23a6019d/view/89cf31f4-04e7-40d8-ae68-1246d36134f9/Gerlitz_Laura_M_201903_MLISMA.pdf]
+;Gerlitz, Laura Michelle, 2019. : "Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory", MA thesis, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. ["This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years [1949-1968] [...]. The resulting patterns will be connected to reader’s advisory as appeal factors in successful book selection by readers."] [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f51462bd-47aa-48ae-8fe7-57db23a6019d/view/89cf31f4-04e7-40d8-ae68-1246d36134f9/Gerlitz_Laura_M_201903_MLISMA.pdf]
 ;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

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	;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.		;Genz, Carole, 2005. : "Romance Revisited: Transformations of the Marital Love Triangle in Women’s Fictions." PhD thesis, University of Stirling, Department of English Studies.
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		+	;Gerlitz, Laura Michelle, 2019. : "Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bringing the Digital Humanities into Reader’s Advisory", MA thesis, Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta. ["This study sets out to examine recurring themes found on book wrappers published by Harlequin in their first seventeen years [1949-1965] [...]. The resulting patterns will be connected to reader’s advisory as appeal factors in successful book selection by readers."] [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f51462bd-47aa-48ae-8fe7-57db23a6019d/view/89cf31f4-04e7-40d8-ae68-1246d36134f9/Gerlitz_Laura_M_201903_MLISMA.pdf]

	;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].		;Glennemeier, Jaelyn, 2018. : “And he was an Arab!:” Imperial Femininity and Pleasure in E. M. Hull's 1919 Desert Romance, ''The Sheik''', Honors thesis, University of Kansas. [https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/26639 Abstract and link to pdf].

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 ;Travis, Melissa E., 2013. : "Assume the Position: Exploring Discipline Relationships." Sociology Dissertations, Paper 71. Ph.D thesis. Georgia State University, Ph.D thesis. [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/71/ Abstract] and [http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=sociology_diss pdf]. [See the section on "Discipline Romance Novels", pp. 159-66.]
-;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2.[http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf]
+;Turner, Natasha, 2015. : "Contemporary Erotic Romance: Cunning Linguists or Fifty Shades of Feminist Dismay?" BA (Hons) dissertation, published in ''The New Birmingham Review'' 1.2. [These older links are no longer working [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44 Abstract] [http://www.newbirminghamreview.uk/ojs/index.php/nbr/article/view/44/21 pdf] but the item should [https://www.academia.edu/10303798/Contemporary_Erotic_Romance_Cunning_Linguists_or_Fifty_Shades_of_Feminist_Dismay?email_work_card=title still be available here]]
 ;Uddin-Khan, Evelyn Angelina, 1995. : "Gender, Ethnicity and the Romance Novel," Columbia U, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 56.11:4341)

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 ;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].
-;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2). In particular, popular romance novelists "Ruby M. Ayres, Barbara Cartland,and Ethel M. Dell contributed fiction to the magazine during the period reviewed" (16).]
+;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2).]
 ;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

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 ;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].
-;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2). In particular, popular romance novelists "Ruby M. Ayres, Barbara Cartland,and Ethel M. Dell contributed fiction to the magazine during the period reviewed" (16).]
+;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. : "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2). In particular, popular romance novelists "Ruby M. Ayres, Barbara Cartland,and Ethel M. Dell contributed fiction to the magazine during the period reviewed" (16).]
 ;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

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	;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].		;Rampure, Archana, 2005. : "Doctors in the Darkness: Reading Race, Gender, and History in the Popular Medical Romance ", U of Toronto, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'' 66.10:3642) [http://search.proquest.com/docview/276475552 Abstract] and some [http://thehypelessromantic.com/2013/07/06/medical-romances-imperialism-nationalism-race-and-gender/ discussion/description here].
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		+	;Reed, Eleanor, 2018. "Domestic Culture in ''Woman's Weekly'', 1918-1958", Doctoral thesis, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Roehampton. [https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/files/1346863/Domestic_Culture_in_Woman_s_Weekly_1918_1958.pdf] ["This thesis [...] explores the domestic culture produced by the magazine between the end of the First World War in November 1918,and 1958." The "literary methodology for surveying periodical form [...] is based on romance, the genre to which the vast majority of ''Woman’s Weekly'' fiction printed during the period belongs" (2). In particular, popular romance novelists "Ruby M. Ayres, Barbara Cartland,and Ethel M. Dell contributed fiction to the magazine during the period reviewed" (16).]

	;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University		;Rice, Linda. 2008. : ''Ambiguous love a reflection of self in relation to popular romance fiction.'' Darwin, N.T.: Iron Mountain. Thesis (M.A.)--Charles Darwin University

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	;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)		;Griffin, Linda Coleman, 1999. : "An Analysis of Meaning Creation through the Integration of Sociology and Literature: A Critical Ethnography of a Romance Reading Group." U of Houston, (''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 60.4: 1117.)
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		+	;Güvendi Yalçın, Elif, 2018. : "The Transformation of Romance Novels Based on the Theories of Sociologist Anthony Giddens," Istanbul Aydin University Institute of Social Sciences. [http://acikarsiv.aydin.edu.tr/handle/11547/1576?mode=full Abstract] [Based on analysis of "three medieval romances’s content— Walter Scott’s ''Ivanhoe'' (1920), Kathleen Woodowiss’ ''The Wolf and the Dove'' (1974), and Amanda Quick’s ''Mystique'' (1995)"]

	;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]		;Hall, Glinda Fountain. 2008.: ''A genre of our own: the cultural work of women's popular romance fiction.'' Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arkansas State University. [http://dbellis.library.astate.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=547355 Catalogue record at Arkansas State University's library.]

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	;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]		;Funderburk, Amy, 2004. : ''Romance Collections in North Carolina Public Libraries: Are All Genres Treated Equally?'' A Master’s Paper for the M.S. in L.S. degree. - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April, 2004. [http://www.ils.unc.edu/MSpapers/2934.pdf]
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		+	;Gardner, Dora Abigail, 2019. : 'Defending the Bodice Ripper', MA thesis, Eastern Kentucky University. [https://search.proquest.com/openview/20dec25c37b36e929b647b84b6b0bd49/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Excerpt]

	;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]		;Garza, Raquel M, ???? (possibly 2011). : ''“Don’t tell me I don’t know what Love is”: A Comparative Study on Heterosexual and Homosexual Romance Novels'' Longwood University, [probably submitted as part of a Bachelor's degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in Public Relations and Organizational Communication]. [https://workstory.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/508208/FINAL_Thesis_original.doc]

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 ;Rutherford, Carina Lynn, 1999. : ''Wild dreams rooted in reality :an exploration of the Harlequin Mills & Boon novels of Daphne Clair.'' Thesis (MA--English)--University of Auckland.
-;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [
+;Sagun, Karryl Kim Abella, 2019. : ''Book Mavens of Manila : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of contemporary niche publishers in the Philippines''. Doctoral thesis,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/bitstream/handle/10220/48072/SAGUNKKAS.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Pdf] [I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)]
 ;Sandbakken, Asta Margrethe, 2016. : "Feeling Men: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Emotion in the Contemporary Romance." MA Thesis, University of Oslo.[https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/51997/Sandbakken_Master.pdf?sequence=1]
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 ;Sanyal, Madhuparna, 2008. : "Re-imagining the late-colonial Anglo-Indian woman's romance: Reading Maud Diver." PhD dissertation, Drew University. AAT 3334864. [https://catalog.drew.edu/web2/tramp2.exe/authority_hits/A02ok5gn.004?server=1home&item=1 Details from Drew University Library]
-;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.] I include this because it incorporates material from "three Wattpad self-publishers based in the Philippines: Mina V. Esguerra, Noreen Capili, and Kimberly Villanueva. All three agreed to be quoted verbatim, and to be referred to by name. They have all published both on electronic platforms (particularly Wattpad) and on print. They also share the same genre for their works: romance" (123)
+;Savinainen, Raija, 2001. : ''Gender-specific features of male/female interaction in a popular romantic novel by Barbara Cartland''. University of Jyväskylä. [http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-2001867069 Details and link to pdf.]
 ;Shore, Zandra Lesley, 1999. : "Girls reading culture, autobiography as inquiry into teaching the body, the romance, and the economy of love." Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Education, University of Toronto. [Can be downloaded from [http://hdl.handle.net/1807/15698 the University of Toronto Library]. [See in particular Chapter Four, which mentions the work done on romance and romance readers by Radway, Snitow, Cohn, Christian-Smith and others.]