Barbara Cartland
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"Dame Barbara Cartland", Order of the British Empire/DBE, Venerable Order of St John/CStJ born as "Mary Barbara Hamilton" was an English author, who was one of the List of prolific writers/best selling authors

as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful authors of the 20th century/twentieth century. Her 723 novels were translated into 36 different languages, and she continues to be referenced in the Guinness World Records for the most novels published in a single year in 1976. As "Barbara Cartland" she is known for her numerous romance novel/romantic novels, but she also wrote under her married name of "Barbara McCorquodale". She wrote more than 700 books, as well as plays, music, verse, drama, magazine articles and operetta she reportedly sold more than 750 million copies. Other sources estimate her book sales at more than 2 billion copies. She specialised in 19th-century Victorian era pure romance. Her novels all featured portrait style artwork, particularly the cover art.

As head of Cartland Promotions she also became one of London's most prominent society figures and one of Britain's most popular media personalities, right up until her death in 2000.

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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that ''nice girls don't'.' He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue / but only in a certain section of society.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

A woman asking ''Am I good? Am I satisfied?'' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.