The Great Dictator

A Life of Barbara Cartland

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<p>THE PERFECTLY OUTRAGEOUS BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN OF ROMANCE BARBARA CARTLAND<br><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE<br>'a comic gem of a biography' - Craig Brown<br>'Sweet writes with great wit and brio' - <i>Observer</i><br>'Every page is a cliff-hanger' - <i>The Spectator</i><br>'Fantastically enjoyable' - <i>Literary Review</i><br><i>'</i>Outrageously entertaining' - <i>The Bookseller</i><br>'wry, affectionate and very readable' - Louis Theroux<br>'jaw-dropping' - India Knight </b></p><p>Penniless virgins. Reckless dukes. Flappers. Airmen. Suffragettes. Barbara Cartland made them fall in love. She wrote 723 books without touching a typewriter: instead, she reclined on her sofa with a Pekinese on her lap - and romantic fiction billowed out of her.</p><p>This dazzling biography reveals the woman behind the powder and mascara - a clever, socially precarious writer navigating a twentieth-century world of war-damaged men, class conflict and sexual peril.</p><p>After 49 proposals, she chose the wrong one. What followed was a life stranger than any of her novels.</p><p>From country house weekends to Fleet Street offices, from Mayfair bedrooms to the divorce court, Matthew Sweet traces Cartland's extraordinary journey through a century of upheaval. Here are terrorist plots, psychic seances, suppressed scandals, plagiarism battles in the cutthroat world of romance publishing - and a surprising turn as a campaigner for Romany rights.</p><p>Drawing on unprecedented access to Cartland's vast archives and firsthand accounts from those who knew her, Sweet delivers a wonderfully entertaining study of class, fame, scandal and self-aggrandisement. Part satire, part biography, part social history, <i>The Great Dictator</i> reveals how a literary legend was made.</p><p><b>'I really think this book might become the sleeper hit of the Christmas rush'. Robert McCrum<br>'An excellent, compassionate biography of the wildly prolific romantic novelist'. <i>The Guardian</i><br>'Matth

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781399715799

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

237 x 161 x 45 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.