Matthew Sweet: A Life Of Barbara Cartland
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Matthew Sweet: A Life Of Barbara Cartland
Date and Time
24th September
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Venue
Temple Church
Price
Standard: £12.00
In Conversation With
Clare Clark
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Penniless virgins. Reckless dukes. Flappers. Airmen. Suffragettes. Barbara Cartland made them fall in love. She wrote 723 books without touching a typewriter: instead, she reclined on her sofa with a Pekinese on her lap – and romantic fiction billowed out of her.
Writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet has drawn on archives and firsthand accounts to reveal the woman behind the powder and mascara – a clever, socially precarious writer navigating a twentieth-century world of war-damaged men, class conflict and sexual peril.
Part satire, part biography, part social history, The Great Dictator reveals how a literary legend was made.
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