Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Barbara Hamilton Cartland NPG x18828

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Named 'top selling author in the world' in 1983. At her peak, Cartland produced twenty-three novels a year with a reputed readership of 400 million. She began her career as a gossip columnist for the Daily Express and published her first novel, a mystery called Jig-Saw in 1925. Later novels, which she dictated to a secretary, are romantic and escapist, with historical settings and virginal heroines. Cartland married twice and had three children. In old age, her television appearances, heavily made-up and wearing pink, left... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.