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Barbara Cartland was a romantic suspense and historical romance author who believed the world was returning to pure morals and love. She would become known as the “Queen of Romance” after writing tons of exhilarating suspense and fascinating adventure novels in which love triumphed over adversity.

Her novels usually revolved around the themes of women need to be women and play female roles and men need to be men and play manly roles in relationships. While not a supporter of current feminist views, her novels were massively popular in her time and continue to be so even today.

She would go on to write more than 700 novels over the course of her lifetime. She also sold more than 750 million copies of her works by the time she died aged 98. Cartland currently holds the Guiness World Record for the number of books anyone published in a single year.

Cartland has been known to be quite a quirky person with a love for pink in which she was always seen in public. She rejected more than fifty proposals for marriage and in 1927 she got married to Alexander McCorquodale. Even after Barbara Cartland gave birth to Raine, her daughter, she continued writing her own novels.
She got divorced by 1933 and in a strange twist got married to Hugh McCorquodale, her former husband’s cousin. It was from this marriage that she got two sons.
As for her writing, she had a very interesting quirk as she never wrote herself. She would often retire to her home library after lunch and curl up in her pink cushioned sofa, from where she dictated several chapters of her novel to several assistants.
Cartland is a relative of Lady Diana and the Princess of Wales used to be a huge reader of her novels. She was also an active citizen and was heavily involved in social work and politics during the Second World War.

In her work, she fought for better conditions and salaries for midwives and nurses and for the welfare of the elderly. She also campaigned for gypsy rights and made it possible for gypsy children to finally be allowed to attend school in England. Cartland was awarded the title Dame in 1991 for her immense contribution to the community and to literature.

Despite her quirky writing habits, Barbara Cartland could churn out up to 8,000 words every day and was known to finish a novel in two weeks.
During the mid 70s, she wrote so many novels that she at one time published 23 in a single year. By the year 2000, she had sold more than a billion copies of her novels that had been translated into more than 35 languages.
She was successful right out of the gate with her debut novel Jigsaw which delighted women across the world. While she wrote simple storylines she conducted much research and travelled widely to find her stories and plots.

Most of her novels usually featured virginal beautiful young women that met noble, rich and rakish heroes in exotic settings. Still chaste, they fall in love, get married and live happily ever after. Women loved her novels as they allowed them to escape to less complex or difficult places.
Cartland also held traditional values about the relationships between women and men. However, Barbara’s personal story is that of an independent minded and driven woman who is not afraid of indulging in anything that piqued her interest.

While she made a name for herself as a traditional romantic author, her life story was just as intriguing as her novels. She died in Hertfordshire on May 21, 2000.

“A Hazard of Hearts” by Barbara Cartland is the story of Serena Staverly. At the beginning of the novel, she is introduced as a woman who loves roaming the stately gardens of her family’s expensive estate and dreams of a future full of romantic love.

She was dealt a shattering blow by cruel fate as she lost her inheritance, her hand, and her home in a game of cards followed soon after by the death of her father in a duel. Everything that belonged to her family was noW the property of the Marquis of Vulcan, the infamous Lord Justin.
He has a reputation for being cold and strange and no decent woman would ever be seen in his company. But Staverly had lost her freedom and is now bound by her father’s honor to marry the man. She has two choices – bow to the will of Lord Justin or run away. Any of the choices would end her dreams and result in dishonor.
When she arrives at Mandrake, her new husband’s ancestral home, she learns that the man and his family are harboring some dark secrets. She finds herself deep in the world of highwaymen, smugglers murder and abduction.

“A Duel of Hearts” by Barbara Cartland is the story of Lady Caroline Faye who meets a stranger in a moonlit and lonely wood. She is all alone with a mysterious stranger who was standing beside a dead man that she thinks he killed.

She is rescued from the dangerous situation by Lord Vane Brecon and promises to conceal his identity and secretly swears to find a way to pay him back.
She soon goes back to the world of adoring suitors and balls but cannot forget the despairing eyes of Lord Brecon. When she learns that his life is in danger she immediately leaves her glamorous life as an heiress to go warn the man that she never could forget.

But her warning seems to fall on deaf ears as he does not care whether he lives or dies. It was only when his enemy came onto the scene that they had to combine forces and take desperate measures. Could their new found alliance make it possible to learn of the true reason for his despair and his sinister secret?

Barbara Cartland’s “The Wicked Marquis” introduces Orelia Stanyon, a lovely young woman. She came back from the George and Dragon Inn and discovered that she could not forget the sardonic and dark stranger that had saved her from two drunken fops.

His passionate but sudden kiss had stirred something deep inside her. Stanyon is all alone in the world and the only relative she has is Caroline, her cousin. She is a beautiful woman that lives an impetous and wild existence and this means she is not the best guardian for Stanyon.

But then Caroline had out of the blue announced that she was engaged and would soon be marrying the irresistible and handsome Marquis of Ryde. He was one of the most eligible and richest men in England that could offer their family the security they so desperately needed.
Orelia is surprised when she meets the Marquis as he is the same man that had stirred her deepest desires all those months past at the George and Dragon Inn.