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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. She has been a County Councillor for nine years,
drawn attention to the condition of Housing and Homes for the
elderly and even had the law changed in order that Romany
children should go to school. 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 helped set up
fourteen county council camps in Hertfordshire and other
counties followed suit. There is even a camp named after her -
Barbaraville!
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. Her interests have
been extensive and she has even written countless books and
articles about health and encouraged the use of alternative
medicine. In fact, Barbara Cartland answered 40,000 letters a
year, of which, 30,000 were about health. She frequently wrote
journals and reports about health products which was unpaid
work. This is a lady who was very much 'in touch' with the
modern world.
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. Since this time the figure has risen to over
sixty million.
Barbara Cartland always had a soft spot for Birmingham and
visited it regularly for appearances on Pebble Mill and
Birmingham radio stations. 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.
Barbara Cartland touched so many lives. Our thanks go to Ian
McCorquodale for providing us with his mothers final farewell -
"How I want to be Remembered", a document detailing her family
history and an insight into her ninety six years which have been
saddened by family tragedy and ecstatically happy through her
love of her family.
Barbara acknowledges that she has been shown great kindness and
also a certain amount of teasing and ridicule by the Press.
However, according to her publishers she has produced 724 books,
sold over a billion copies and entered the Guinness Book of
Records as the best selling author in the World. Published in
every country this amazing lady can afford to rise above those
who might make fun of her. This marvellous woman is beyond
ridicule and has no need to prove anything to anyone. The facts
speak for themselves. Barbara Cartland is the most successful
writer of romantic fiction of all time. And - she was born in
Birmingham!
Barbara Cartland was an amazingly prolific author. When her
books were selling so well in the late 1970's, her American and
English publishers came to her and asked for more Barbara
Cartlands to satisfy the demanding audience.
She then doubled her output from 10 books a year to 20 books a
year, and this at the age of 77! She kept this up,
extraordinarily for 20 years, between the ages of 77 and 97.
This is something that has never been achieved before by any
author.
Eventually, even her publishers could not cope with her output
and when she died in 2000 she left a legacy of 160 unpublished
manuscripts which are now being published by her son, Ian, on
the internet and by mail order, under the banner of the Barbara
Cartland Pink Collection.
Will there ever again be a writer with such genius and prolific
writing skills?
www.birminghamuk.com/barbaracartland.ht
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