Dame Barbara Cartland Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) published as Barbara Cartland was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily duri ...

(1901–2000) was a prolific English

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novelist who published 728 books over 76 years. Cartland published under several

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s, including her married name Barbara McCorquodale. She also briefly published under the pen name Marcus Belfry, the pseudonym of Polish film and television actor

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. After her death in 2000, 160 unpublished archival manuscripts were published as the ''Barbara Cartland Pink Collection''. For the 2012

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Cartland's publishers announced the beginning of ''The Eternal Collection'', which re-releases works monthly. Some of Cartland's novels are re-released under different titles, and novels published under Barbara McCorquodale are re-released as Barbara Cartland. Cartland was a columnist for the newspaper ''

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'' before writing her first novel ''Jig-Saw'' in 1920 at age 19. Her last novel was published in 1997.Dame Barbara Cartland Official Website
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As Barbara Cartland

Novels

Non-fiction

As Barbara McCorquodale

As Marcus Belfrey

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cartland, Barbara Bibliographies by writer Bibliographies of British writers Romantic fiction bibliographies