Tell us in only three words what comes to mind with our weekly guest. This week an original Grande Dame.
In three words...
Dame Barbara Cartland, DBE
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
writer
ReplyDelete(sorry, that's all I know about her)
wrote trashy romances
ReplyDeleteAll pink everything!
ReplyDeleteRead one once!
ReplyDeleteclassy, old broad
ReplyDeleteThird best selling.
ReplyDeleteBarbara Cartland is the third-best-selling fiction author of all time (estimated 1 billion copies sold). That's a lot of trashy romance.
First Pink Lady
ReplyDeletePink fluffy confection.
ReplyDeletecharming intellectual exuberant.
ReplyDeletedisciplined, blissful, romantic.
ReplyDeleteDidn't understand women.
predictable chick lit.
ReplyDeleteQueen of Romance.
ReplyDeleteA camp treasure.
ReplyDeleteJx
Never read her.
ReplyDeleteGod awful hair.
ReplyDeleteglamorous-pink frocked.
ReplyDeleteboot polished eyelashes.
ReplyDeleteI swear...it was her secret to her mascara not running when she got upset.
Impossibly 'idealised' 'romances'.
ReplyDeleteAll hetero, naturally!
DeletePrincess Diana's (step)grandmother!
ReplyDeletePink puff ball! And blue eyeshadow.
ReplyDeleteSx
Nauseatingly Sappy Books
ReplyDeleteI was more into Georgette Heyer and Marion Chesney, back during my testosterone surrounded, do I really have to raise these boys, days. Cartland never tripped any escapism triggers for me.
DeleteVitamins and face cream.
ReplyDeleteJP
After reading some of the colorful comments, I'm thinking that black and white picture doesn't do her justice. Pink? Really? She must've been fascinatingly hideous in color!
ReplyDeleteThe Pink Lady.
ReplyDeleteI had a brief Barbara Cartland period but then I got into Anne Rice and all but forgot good old Barbara.
XOXO