The Great Dictator
A Life of Barbara Cartland
$59.50
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2026
Summary
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.
This dazzling biography reveals 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.
After 49 proposa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399715799 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399715798 |
| Author: | Matthew Sweet |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet is co-writer, with Mark Gatiss, of the TV detective series, Bookish. He is the author of Inventing the Victorians (2001), Shepperton Babylon (2005), The West End Front (2011) and Operation Chaos (2018). His novel, The New Forest Murders was published in 2025.
Matthew presents Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4. His 25 years of broadcasting include 12 years of Sound of Cinema (Radio 3), five series of The Philosophers Arms (Radio 4) and 1922: The Birth of Now, a ten-part history of modernism (Radio 4). He is a Public Humanities Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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