A brilliant new biography that does it subject the favour of taking her seriously – even if few else did Barbara Cartland was famous for dictating her novels. With a pekingese clamped to her hot pink bosom she would lie back on a library couch and exhale a story about virginal girls taming waywa...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/25/the-great-dictator-by-matthew-sweet-review-the-life-of-barbara-cartland)