Barbara Cartland

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland DBE CStJ, (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) also commonly known as Barbara Cartland, authored over 700 books. Her career began as a gossip columnist, and after a year she published her first novel, Jigsaw (1923), a slightly naughty society thriller that became a bestseller. She was still active at the time of her death and she left 160 unpublished manuscripts which are being marketed by her son on the official website. [1]

On the Web

• Barbara Cartland - official website
• Fantastic Fiction - view some of the covers of her books

Books

• As Eagles Fly - 1975, (Pan Books)
• Passions In The Sand - 1976, (Pan Books/Macmillan)

Autobiographical and biographical

• The Isthmus Years 1919-1939
• The Years of Opportunity 1939-1945
• I Search for Rainbows 1945-1966
• We Danced All Night 1919-1929
• Ronald Cartland (with a foreword by Sir Winston Churchill)
• Polly, My Wonderful Mother

Historical

• Bewitching Women
• The Outrageous Queen (The Story of Queen Christina of Sweden)
• The Scandalous Life of King Carol
• The Private Life of King Charles II
• The Private Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia
• Josephine, Empress of France
• Diana de Poitiers
• Metternich - the Passionate Diplomat

Sociology

• You in the Home
• The Fascinating Forties
• Marriage for Moderns
• Be Vivid, Be Vital
• Love, Life and Sex
• Vitamins for Vitality
• Husbands and Wives
• Barbara Cartland's Health Food Cookery Book
• Barbara Cartland's Book of Beauty and Health
• Men are Wonderful
• Food for Love
• Etiquette
• The Many Facets of Love
• Sex and the Teenager
• The Book of Charm
• Living Together
• The Youth Secret
• The Magic of Honey

Editor of

• The Common Problems by Ronald Cartland (with a preface by the Rt. Hon. The Earl of Selborne, P.C.)

Drama

• Blood Money
• French Dressing

Philosophy

• Touch the Stars

Radio Operetta

• The Rose and the Violet (music by Mark Lubbock)

performed in 1942

Radio Play

• The Caged Bird (An episode from The Private Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Russia - performed in 1957.)

Verse

Lines on Life and Love