biography
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Cartland, Dame (Mary) Barbara (Hamilton)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1901–2000)
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| biography:
| Popular romantic novelist, born in Edgbaston, West Midlands, C England, UK. She published her first novel, Jigsaw, in 1923, and produced a total of 723 novels, mostly dictated to a team of secretaries. Their theme was one of chaste romantic love in which only the scenery and names of characters changed. She wrote a further series of biographies, books on food, health, and beauty, and several volumes of autobiography. She earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records for writing 26 books in 1983. She married first, in 1927, Alexander George McCorquodale (d.1964), whom she divorced in 1933; then in 1936 his cousin, Hugh McCorquodale (d.1963). By her first marriage she was the mother of Raine, Dowager Countess Spencer, step-mother of the Princess of Wales (d.1997). She was an ardent advocate of health foods, and fitness for the elderly. She became a dame in 1991. |
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