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Though the category “inspirational romances” has been typically applied to romances published by Evangelical publishing houses or the Christian imprints of publishing houses, it has been argued that “writers seeking to address other religions’ takes on romance should also be included in scholarship on ‘inspirational romance’” (Barrett-Fox and Donnelly 2021: 206). This would imply that scholarship on romances featuring non-Christian religious groups like Jews or Muslims should be rightly included within the category of inspirational romance. The romances analyzed in this book are, for the most part, Christian in a conventional interpretation of the term. However, as will be shown, some authors of the romances studied in this book are Quakers themselves, and at least one of them has had her works published by a Quaker publishing house. Their romances tend to deviate from conventional Christian romances in a number of ways, as my book will argue, but I nevertheless agree with Barrett-Fox and Donnelly that their works are, in their own way, inspirational fiction as well.