Cartland

/ ˈkɑːtlənd /

noun

1. CartlandBarbara (Hamilton), Dame19012000MBritishWRITING: novelist Dame Barbara ( Hamilton ). 1901–2000, British novelist, noted for her prolific output of popular romantic fiction

Example Sentences

With her willingness to “boom,” as she described the promotional work which took her to America, and ability to stomach critical contempt and even public censure, she was a precursor to romance novelists like Barbara Cartland and that publicity-seeking missile of midcentury, Jacqueline Susann.

From New York Times

Judy Kaye won worst supporting actress for playing both the Queen and Barbara Cartland, while the show also won worst director and worst screenplay.

From BBC

Roe Hartrampf’s Charles is basically a Prince of Wails, complaining bitterly and at the top of his voice for the entire show; Judy Kaye’s already one-note battleship of a performance as Queen Elizabeth II is further undercut by her popping up occasionally as Cartland — Diana’s step-grandmother — for supposed comic relief.

From New York Times

That is to say: a chorus of paparazzi in trench coats, tiresomely repeating “Snap click!” and whirling like sinister dervishes; a banal dramatization of the night Diana danced at the Royal Opera House, footnoted by doggerel comments such as “Every move was on point, she electrified the joint”; the accomplished musical theater actress Judy Kaye, woodenly playing the brow-furrowing queen and also Diana’s flamboyant stepgrandmother, romance novelist Barbara Cartland, in a role tailor made for Dame Edna.

From Washington Post

Kaye also plays prolific romance novelist Barbara Cartland, who in addition to dispensing earthy wisdom to Diana provides an outlet for unmitigated camp.

From Los Angeles Times