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Barbara Cartland

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Barbara Cartland

Born July 9, 1901 · Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK

Died May 21, 2000 · aged 98

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, DStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000) was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century. Many of her novels have been adapted into films for television in…

Known For

The Lady and the HighwaymanThe Lady and the Highwayman · 1988
The Lady and the Highwayman
★ 5.11988
MovieActionDrama
During one of his robberies, a highwayman with a heart of gold falls in love with an aristocratic lady. Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause.
A Hazard of HeartsA Hazard of Hearts · 1987
A Hazard of Hearts
★ 7.81987
MovieDramaRomance
In a desperate bid to cover his debts, compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley stakes his estate and his daughter's hand on a game of chance. Serena Staverley soon finds herself bound to a mysterious victor and trapped in a cliff-top manor.
A Ghost in Monte CarloA Ghost in Monte Carlo · 1990
A Ghost in Monte Carlo
★ 5.31990
MovieRomanceHistory
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Duel of HeartsDuel of Hearts · 1992
Duel of Hearts
★ 7.01992
MovieTV MovieDrama
Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
The Flame Is LoveThe Flame Is Love · 1979
The Flame Is Love
★ 9.01979
MovieDramaRomance
In this melodrama from Barbara Cartland's 1975 bestseller, a turn-of-the-century American heiress, while en route to her betrothal to an English duke, encounters love and intrigue in the arms of a French journalist.

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