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• Romance fiction, American -- Periodicals

• Sweetheart Stories (partial serial archives)
• Breezy Stories (partial serial archives)
• Love Story Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Ranch Romances (partial serial archives)
• Dream World (1920s-1930 romance magazine) (partial serial archives)

• Romance (Ridgway magazine, 1919-1929) (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Her Father's Daughter, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Her Father's Daughter (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by Dudley Gloyne Summers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Jerry (London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, c1907), by Jean Webster (Gutenberg text)
• Jerry Junior (New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Jerry Junior (New York: The Century Co., 1907), by Jean Webster, illust. by Orson Lowell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Louisa: or, The Cottage on the Moor (London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1787), by Elizabeth Helme
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
• Mavis of Green Hill (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1921), by Faith Baldwin (Gutenberg text)
• The Pale Blonde of Sands Street (New York: Viking Press, 1946), by William Chapman White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Career of Katherine Bush (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Elinor Glyn, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Violet: A Fairy Story (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1856), by C. S. Guild (multiple formats at Google)

• Romance Readers and Romance Writers: A Satirical Novel, by Sarah Green (PDF at Chawton House Library)

• Middle Aged Love Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903), by Josephine Daskam Bacon (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tattle-Tales of Cupid (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), by Paul Leicester Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• Studies in Love and in Terror (Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, c1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg text)
• Studies in Love and in Terror (second edition; London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Marie Belloc Lowndes (HTML at Emory)

• The Romance Novel in English: A Rare Book Survey, 1769-1999 (2021), by Rebecca Romney (PDF at typepunchmatrix.com)

• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and The Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Deborah Lutz (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen's Novels (originally published 1971, revised 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alistair M. Duckworth (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1962), by Howard S. Babb
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, by Queen Marguerite, trans. by Walter K. Kelly (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Legal Tender: Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2010), by John Griffith Urang (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Most Delectable and Pleasaunt History of Clitiphon and Leucippe (London: Printed by T. Creede, for W. Mattes, 1597), by Achilles Tatius, trans. by William Burton (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Xenophon's Ephesian History: or, The Love-Adventures of Abrocomas and Anthia (based on multiple editions of this translation), by Xenophon of Ephesus, trans. by John Rooke (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)

• The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus, and Achilles Tatius: Comprising The Ethiopics, or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The Pastoral Amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and The Loves of Clitopho and Leucippe (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1889), by Heliodorus of Emesa, Longus, and Achilles Tatius, ed. by Rowland Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Blue Book Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Golden Book Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Famous Story Magazine (partial serial archives)

• The Magic Carpet Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Oriental Stories (partial serial archives)
• The Popular Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Top-Notch Magazine (partial serial archives)
• Brave and Bold (partial serial archives)
• People's (partial serial archives)
• The Thrill Book (partial serial archives)
• Action Stories (partial serial archives)
• Frank Reade Library, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)
• Frank Reade Weekly Magazine, contrib. by Luis Senarens (partial serial archives)

• The Storytellers' Magazine (1913-1918; issues online 1913-1917) (partial serial archives)

• Belgravia Annual (partial serial archives)
• Routledge's Christmas Annual (partial serial archives)

• "I Confess" (partial serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.