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L Though Cartland also wrote
cookery books and biographies, she is famous for her romances. Her love
stories are mostly set in Regency England and feature earls, dukes and
ladies. Straightforward romances, they all have happy endings, no sex
and are entirely devoid of surprises. The predictability, however, never
came in the way of their popularity and for most of her life she wrote
10 books a year. Then, when she was 77 years old, the demand outstripped
the supply and her publishers asked her to increase her output. From
then on till 1997, when according to Steven Glen, Director of Cartland’s
website, "she went utterly blind and very deaf", she wrote 20
books a year. |
OVE,
they say, transcends death, and in Barbara Cartland’s case so does
writing about love. The most prolific writer of the 20th
century, Cartland wrote 723 romances during her 99-year life. And now,
four years after her death, her fans can read two brand new Cartland
novels — The Cross of Love and Love in the Highlands.
Nor is this all: 158 will follow, at the rate of one a month for nearly
the next 13 years. These previously unpublished stories will be
published through the Internet. They were found after her death, tied
with a pink ribbon, in her library at Camfiled, Hertfordshire.