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The deeper realities of our faith are beyond precise verbal formulation and our way of worship based on silent waiting testifies to this.

‒The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society

of Friends (Quakers) in Britain (2010: 3)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Research for this book was carried out in the context of the project “The Politics, Aesthetics, and Marketing of Popular Women’s Fiction: History, Exoticism and Romance” (FFI 2016-75I30-P), funded by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO), the Agencia Española de Investigación (AEI), and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

I should particularly like to express my gratitude to the principal investigator in said project, Professor Paloma Fresno Calleja from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). No one like her has ever supported all my “funny” ideas, even those that include bonnets slapped on covers.

I am likewise grateful to the romance writers who kindly agreed to answer my questions via email, thus allowing me to gain a better understanding of their work: Mary Ellis, Lyn Cote, Edith Maxwell and Sue McCracken.