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Barbara McCorquodale
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Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was a English writer, during her long career, she wrote over 700 books, making her one of the most prolific authors of the 20th century. She sold over 1,000 million copies throughout the world, earning her a place in the Guinness Book of Records. The world's most famous romantic novelist, she also wrote autobiographies, biographies, health and cookery books, and stage plays and recorded an album of love songs. She was often billed as the Queen of Romance, and became one of the United Kingdom's most popular media personalities, appearing often at public events and on television, dressed in her trademark pink and discoursing on love, health and social issues.
She started her writing career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express. She published her first novel, Jigsaw, a society thriller, in 1923. It was a bestseller. She went on to write myriad novels and earn legions of fans, she also wrote under her married name Barbara McCorquodale. Some of her books were made into films. Ever the romantic, during WWII, she served as the Chief Lady Welfare Officer in Bedfordshire. She gathered as many wedding dresses as she could so that service brides would have a white gown to wear on their wedding day. She also campaigns for the rights of Gypsies, midwives and nurses.
Barbara Cartland passed away on 21 May 2000, with 160 still unpublished manuscripts, that are being published posthumously.
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Love Is Mine
- 1952
- / Contemporary Romance
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FORTUNES OF LOVE Lovely young Lady Toria had longed to marry for love. But now--after a whirlwind romance and the most fashionable wedding of the season--she was the wife of Charles Drayton, a man she didn't love, and she was in despair. She's not ...
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The Passionate Pilgrim
- 1952
- / Contemporary Romance
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ELUSIVE LOVE Handsome, talented, irresistible to women, Randal Gray was the most successful young playwright in London. But he was not content with his excessive good fortune. Something eluded his restless heart. What was he seeking, this passionate...
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Blue Heather
- 1953
- / Contemporary Romance
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DIPLOMACY OF LOVE Brigadier Ian McCraggan--handsome British diplomat--had gone back to Scotland to claim the old castle and become the Chief of the Clan. But when he arrived at the beloved ruin, Ian was faced with the most delicate diplomatic s...
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Wings on My Heart
- 1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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TRIANGLE OF LOVE Young Lord Roxburton was the most desirable bachelor in England--handsome, rich, and devilishly charming. No one had captured his fickle affections for long. Now a beautiful American heiress was determined to marry him, and Hugo R...
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The Kiss of Paris
- 1956
- / Historical Romance
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TOO LATE FOR LOVE Sheena had come to the Mariposan Embassy in Paris under false pretenses. She pretended she was a widow, that she was English, and that she was an experienced governess. Sheena had no idea why her Uncle had asked her to partake in...
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Love Forbidden
- 1957
- / Historical Romance
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LOVE'S COMMAND Lovely Aria Milbourne--with her mysterious dark eyes and flaming hair--disdained the world of glamor and fashion. Daughter of the notorious Sir Gladstone Milbourne, she had watched him squander the family fortunes in extravagant liv...
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The Thief of Love
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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OUTCASTS FOR LOVE Alloa could not forget him. When he smiled he was irresistibly handsome, yet she knew he was a thief. Was he worse than that, she wondered. Would she ever see him again? When Alloa did meet him again, she had stumbled on...
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Lights of Love
- 1958
- / Historical Romance
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Dangerous Deceit Enchanting daughter of a poor English vicar, Taryna was posing as a Canadian heiress to please her lonely school friend, Kit. It was an innocent masquerade to appease Kit's snobbish stepmother. So Taryna was drawn into the gl...
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A Kiss of Silk
- Jan-1959
- / Traditional Regency
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From the beginning, it had been strictly a business understanding. Varia was given a huge sum of money and a magnificent wardrobe to wear in France as "fiancee" of Sir Edward's spoiled son Ian. For Ian the scheme was barely tolerable for it meant lea...
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The Price Is Love
- 1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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ADVENTURE IN ROME Dacia Vancroft was young and pretty. And now she was in fabulous Rome, private nurse to Sir Marcus Cunningham. It would have been a thrilling week, if Sir Marcus hadn't been so hateful. He was rude, arrogant, and quarrelsome, and...
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The Runaway Heart
- 1961
- / Contemporary Romance
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YOUR HEART WILL KNOW IT Enchanting young beauty and an arrogant man of means--Could a mysterious scheme destroy them both? "Listen, Karina," he had said. "You are so absurdly young and inexperienced. Do be careful what you do with your life. Do...
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A Light to the Heart
- 1962
- / Contemporary Romance
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PRISONER OF WEALTH Lovely Elita knew she must escape. She must be freed from her golden chains to make her own life, to find the one man she could love. And then she found Hans. At the mere sight of him, her whole being ached for the wonder of his...
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Love Is Dangerous
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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A BESIEGED HEART Melina threw up her dull but safe job in a solicitor's office and answered an advertisement for a secretary/companion to a rich American. Mrs Schuster was travelling to Morocco and Melina had always wanted to see the country, but he...
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Danger by the Nile
- Jan-1964
- / Historical Romance
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EXOTIC TERROR An unknown hand drops a letter into Romina Huntley's mail box, and that letter, as mysterious as the Nile itself, pitches her into near death and torture. Her brother Chris, she learns, is dead in Cairo. With her brother's wealthy fri...
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Love on the Run
- 1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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A SLEEPING BEAUTY AWAKES Marina Martyn was extremely rich and very beautiful, and engaged to a handsome and equally rich young man who loved her, but she did not love him. She always had everything, except a man she could love. When she broke off he...
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Theft of a Heart
- 1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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YEARNING Lovely, golden-haired Amanda suddenly knew what she wanted! She wanted the kisses she had never known... she longed for love! But there was one last mission to be undertaken for Major Jackson, that strangely compelling, attractive...