Even if he does not love me, I will devote myself to him… Baroness Marina is a twenty-six-year-old spinster. Feeling pressure to get married, Marina gets dres

An encyclopedic, biographical survey of the genre. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a complete list of separately published books, and a signa

Challenges the view that this fiction is conservative, uniform and unchanging. It examines the 'Australianness' of Australian romance writing and considers the