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  Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Dame Barbara Cartland 1901-2000
Born Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland on July 1, 1901 to Mary Hamilton Scobell and her husband Bertram Cartland, "Dame Barbara" as she was affectionately known in her native England was the eldest of three children.
Cartland was made Dame of The British Empire in 1991 and additionally bore the titles Dame of Grace of the Order of St. John Jerusalem; Chairwoman of the St. John Council of Hertfordshire and Deputy President of the St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Cartland was preceded in death by her father, Bertram, killed in active duty in World War I. Her younger brothers, Anthony and Ronald perished within hours of one another defending their country at The Battle of Dunkirk in 1940.
www.obits.com /cartlanddamebarb.html   (449 words)

  
 Barbara Cartland
Cartland rose to her status as the queen of escapist novels during the 1960s and maintained her prolific writing pace through decades.
Cartland was one of the 'bright young things' of the post-war period - she was independent, talented, and smart.
Cartland herself lived on her luxurious estate 15 miles north of London, but she founded the first Romany Gypsy camp in the world, giving a portion of her 300-acre estate to them.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /bcartlan.htm   (1188 words)

  
 Dame Barbara Cartland ( 1 )
In 1927 Barbara Cartland married Alexander George McCorquodale, a former Officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders who was heir to a British printing fortune.
At this time Barbara Cartland was writing for a weekly magazine and several newspapers but always under an assumed name so that no one knew who the writer was.
Barbara Cartland wrote and canvassed on behalf of her brother who finally won with a majority of nearly 6000.
www.msjsoftware.com /articles/article.asp?ID=50248   (884 words)

  
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Barbara Cartland poured so much of herself into her 500-plus books that they were barely written at all.
There is a temptation to see Dame Cartland as the heroine of one of her turgid tales, but her own life was more complex.
The typical Cartland romance is the story of a lovely, virginal and spirited heroine who meets a difficult and exotic man, perhaps in a far-off locale, often in the Regency period, but at any time since the late 1700s.
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 Barbara Cartland, `Queen of Romance' is dead
Dame Barbara died in her sleep after a short illness, a spokeswoman said.
A standard Barbara Cartland novel revolved around an innocent, week-kneed woman of considerable beauty being swept of her feet by a masterful and, most often, titled man. Needless to say, her heroines always lived happily ever after.
Barbara was born the daughter of Army officer Bertram Cartland, and Mary Hamilton Scobell.
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 Who is Barbara Cartland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Barbara Cartland's father was killed in May of 1918 during World War I. Barbara, her mother, and her two younger brothers moved to London.
Barbara was married to Alexander (Sachie) McCorquodale on April 23, 1927.
Barbara was married to Hugh McCorquodale (Alexander's cousin) on December 28, 1936 at Guildhall, London, England.
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 Dame Barbara Cartland ( 2 )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
You might be tempted into thinking that Barbara Cartland lived in a fantasy pink world of imagination if it were not for the fact that she has achieved many great things.
Barbara Cartland was awarded for Achievement by Prime Minister Chirac of France the honour bestowed upon her by the City of Paris in a country where over thirty million copies her books had been sold.
Barbara acknowledges that she has been shown great kindness and also a certain amount of teasing and ridicule by the Press.
www.natural-cures.tv /Dame-Barbara-Cartland--2.html   (620 words)

  
 BBC News | TALKING POINT | Your memories of Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara was one of the world's most successful authors, with estimated worldwide sales of one billion copies in 36 languages.
I neither liked nor admired Dame Barbara Cartland, but the snide, venomous comments submitted and published here on her death, are in more poor taste than she ever was.
Dame Barbara was a great entertainment personality who undoubtedly made a great contribution in terms of relaxation and entertainment value but I'm glad her societal ideas and values aren't the prevailing ones.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/758082.stm   (1663 words)

  
 Barbara Cartland
Dame (Mary) Barbara Hamilton Cartland was a prolific romantic novelist.
Barbara Cartland was born on 9 July 1901 in Edgbaston, England and died on 21 May 2000.
Barbara Cartland published her first novel, Jigsaw when she was 21.
www.biogs.com /famous/cartlandbarbara.html   (164 words)

  
 Dame Barbara Cartland | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
Cartland never forgot that; she modelled herself on her mother, who also lived until the age of 98.
Dame Barbara's conversation was as uninhibited as her flamboyant, frankly rather grotesque, appearance.
After recovering from the shock of my first sight of Dame Barbara, and despite her relentless rightwing lament that the country had gone to the dogs, I had warmed to her rather endearing dottiness.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,223711,00.html   (2122 words)

  
 Paul Greenberg
To quote the description of a Barbara Cartland hero in the New York Times, he "was invariably a dark, square-jawed chap, perhaps with bulging biceps, incessantly given to splendid thoughts, despite his worldliness.
Barbara Cartland, after a lifetime of mapping the frontiers of kitsch, knew just where that point was, and why.
Barbara Cartland will be remembered as long as young misses into orthodontics devour her books, middle-aged ladies around the world dip into them surreptitiously, and prose remains
www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/greenberg053100.asp   (821 words)

  
 Astrology Software for Research - Barbara Cartland - astrology chart
Cartland put out a novel a week, often dictating to secretaries while reclining on a chaise lounge.
Cartland was the daughter of an army major, raised as a pampered darling along with her two brothers.
Cartland was outspoken in her support of various charities.
www.astrodatabank.com /NM/CartlandBarbaraPRT.htm   (322 words)

  
 Celebrity Deathwatch: Dame Barbara Cartland, Best-selling romance novelist, 98
Cartland's novels, about feminine virtue and manly ideals, were dictated to a relay of secretaries as she reclined on a sofa, dressed usually in a glamorous pink frock.
It was never clear whether she was strictly serious about her rather rococo image because, as she herself said, "Nobody sends up Barbara Cartland better than I do myself." Her remarks to the press, however slight, were attention-getters.
She said she was sure the honor was not for her contributions to literature but for her efforts of behalf of charities and the gypsies.
www.slick.org /deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00061.html   (838 words)

  
 Dame Barbara Cartland ( 2 )
In 1989 Barbara Cartland was the first person ever to appear twice on the famous television show 'This is your Life' Barbara Cartland has championed many causes and taken part in a variety of projects.
This was one of the most unpopular causes she had ever attempted but the provision of camps for Romany gypsies is down to Barbara Cartland.
She gave many interviews to Birmingham newspapers and in particular the 'Birmingham Post' and she always said she was delighted to have been born in a great city and proud of everything that Birmingham had achieved.
www.msjsoftware.com /articles/article.asp?ID=50247   (652 words)

  
 Barbara Cartland Biography (Writer) — Infoplease.com
Dame Barbara Cartland (married name McCorquodale) was the most prolific author in British history, known primarily for her romance novels.
Cartland was also a celebrity, famous for her involvement in charities and social causes and easily recognized by her pink chiffon outfits.
She was also related to Diana, Princess of Wales by marriage and was referred to as her step-grandmother.
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/barbaracartland.html   (247 words)

  
 From her grave, Barbara Cartland springs a brilliant twist on fans - World - www.smh.com.au
Barbara Cartland was the most prolific author of the 20th century.
The books are being published in a series called The Barbara Cartland Pink Collection, named after her lifelong love of the colour.
In 1991 she became a Dame of the Order of the British Empire for her contribution to literature and her work for charity.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/11/12/1100227585334.html?from=moreStories   (620 words)

  
 Barbara Cartland - Welcome
During her long career, my mother, Barbara Cartland wrote an incredible 723 books, which were translated into 38 languages, making her the most prolific author of the 20th Century.
These exciting new romances form The Barbara Cartland Pink Collection, through which my mothers aim to bring love and happiness to her millions of readers can now continue.
The Pink Collection is classic Barbara Cartland - glorious romances with spellbinding adventure, thrilling suspense and, of course, the triumph of love over every adversity.
www.barbaracartland.com /static/home.aspx?from=1   (210 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
She ran cosmetics and health food corporations (honey was her secret to living 98 vigorous years, and she never failed to take two brandies and soda at meals).
Relations were strained with her step-granddaughter, the princess of Wales, though vivid enough for her to propose that I catechize Diana the following summer, but that was the fatal summer.
Dame Barbara knew that one can hardly be more lapsed than to have lapsed from the Church of England, as she threatened to do.
www.crisismagazine.com /october2004/cloud.htm   (434 words)

  
 Barbara Cartland Biography at People Search Engines
Summary: Dame Barbara Cartland (married name McCorquodale) was the most prolific author in British history, known primarily for her romance novels.
But she's most famous as the "Queen of the Romance Novel." Cartland published her first novel in 1923 (Jig-Saw) and was off and running.
Cartland was also a celebrity, famous for her involvment in charities and social causes and easily recognized by her pink chiffon outfits.
www.people-search-engines.com /famous-people-search/index.php?alpha=2&detail=394   (244 words)

  
 Dame Barbara Cartland
Dame Barbara sits in her baroque mansion all day writing novels at an incredible rate.
So far Dame Barbara has written about a million of these books and is only now slowing down as she is well into her nineties.
Dame Barbara is a complete relic from another age.
www.cool-stuff.co.uk /Cartland/index.html   (308 words)

  
 Dame jeux
Ceci dit, ma Dame et moi n’avons que peu d’expérience dans le SM tendance ‘je travaille le bois, et je suis un ancien de l’école Boulle’, mais sait-on jamais..
Bon, bien sur, ma Dame et moi somme les vivantes exemples (oui, je sais, on dit vivants, mais je fais qu’est ce que je veux quand j’écris) du bien-être qu’apporte cette relation.
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 HELLO! Contents 6
Born into a moneyed background in 1901, Barbara's glamorous prospects were threatened briefly when her grandfather went bankrupt and her father was killed in the Great War.
But her mother determined standards should be maintained and took the young Barbara and her brother to London to join society.
Seduced by romance all her days, Dame Barbara wrote her first novel at the age of 21.
www.hola.com /hello/hellonet/2000/he0614s7.htm   (200 words)

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