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Barbara Cartland


 

Dame Barbara Cartland DBE (Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, July 9, 1901 - May 21, 2000) was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time — and one of the most bizarre looking, being swathed invariably in outfits of pastel chiffon and fond of makeup so theatrically thick that one wag reported that it looked as if she'd tried to eat lipstick with her eyes. Press photographs illustrated her wrapped in a white sequinned gown, gigantic aquamarines at her throat, her white-blond hair teased to gravity-defying dimensions, and resting somewhere near her manicured hand, a pouty Pekingese.

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