By Birmingham UK Com
In 1989 Barbara Cartland was the first person ever to appeartwice on the famous television show 'This is your Life' BarbaraCartland has championed many causes and taken part in a varietyof projects. She has been a County Councillor for nine years,drawn attention to the condition of Housing and Homes for theelderly and even had the law changed in order that Romanychildren should go to school. This was one of the most unpopularcauses she had ever attempted but the provision of camps forRomany gypsies is down to Barbara Cartland. She helped set upfourteen county council camps in Hertfordshire and othercounties followed suit. There is even a camp named after her -Barbaraville!
You might be tempted into thinking that Barbara Cartland livedin a fantasy pink world of imagination if it were not for thefact that she has achieved many great things. Her interests havebeen extensive and she has even written countless books andarticles about health and encouraged the use of alternativemedicine. In fact, Barbara Cartland answered 40,000 letters ayear, of which, 30,000 were about health. She frequently wrotejournals and reports about health products which was unpaidwork. This is a lady who was very much 'in touch' with themodern world.
Barbara Cartland was awarded for Achievement by Prime MinisterChirac of France the honour bestowed upon her by the City ofParis in a country where over thirty million copies her bookshad been sold. Since this time the figure has risen to oversixty million.
Barbara Cartland always had a soft spot for Birmingham andvisited it regularly for appearances on Pebble Mill andBirmingham radio stations. She gave many interviews toBirmingham newspapers and in particular the 'Birmingham Post'and she always said she was delighted to have been born in agreat city and proud of everything that Birmingham had achieved.
Barbara Cartland touched so many lives. Our thanks go to IanMcCorquodale for providing us with his mothers final farewell -"How I want to be Remembered", a document detailing her familyhistory and an insight into her ninety six years which have beensaddened by family tragedy and ecstatically happy through herlove of her family.
Barbara acknowledges that she has been shown great kindness andalso 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 ofRecords as the best selling author in the World. Published inevery country this amazing lady can afford to rise above thosewho might make fun of her. This marvellous woman is beyondridicule and has no need to prove anything to anyone. The factsspeak for themselves. Barbara Cartland is the most successfulwriter of romantic fiction of all time. And - she was born inBirmingham!
Barbara Cartland was an amazingly prolific author. When herbooks were selling so well in the late 1970's, her American andEnglish publishers came to her and asked for more BarbaraCartlands to satisfy the demanding audience.
She then doubled her output from 10 books a year to 20 books ayear, 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 anyauthor.
Eventually, even her publishers could not cope with her outputand when she died in 2000 she left a legacy of 160 unpublishedmanuscripts which are now being published by her son, Ian, onthe internet and by mail order, under the banner of the BarbaraCartland Pink Collection.
Will there ever again be a writer with such genius and prolificwriting skills?
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