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Barbara Taylor Bradford


Born
in Leeds, England, The United Kingdom
May 10, 1933

Died
November 24, 2024

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Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American novelist whose dramatic family sagas and stories of ambitious women made her one of the most commercially successful authors of modern popular fiction. Raised in Leeds, she developed an early love of reading and decided as a child that she would become a writer. After leaving school at sixteen, she began her career in journalism, first working in the typing pool of the Yorkshire Evening Post before becoming a reporter. In her early twenties she moved to London, where she built a successful career as a fashion editor for Woman's Own magazine and later wrote widely syndicated newspaper columns. Although she experimented with suspense fiction, her breakthrough came with the novel A Woman of Substa ...more

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A Woman of Substance (Emma ...

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Hold the Dream (Emma Harte ...

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Cavendon Hall (Cavendon Hal...

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To Be the Best  (Emma Harte...

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Emma's Secret (Emma Harte S...

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Unexpected Blessings (Emma ...

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The Cavendon Women (Cavendo...

3.78 avg rating — 4,354 ratings — published 2015 — 50 editions
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A Sudden Change of Heart

3.93 avg rating — 3,420 ratings — published 1998 — 57 editions
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The Cavendon Luck (Cavendon...

3.93 avg rating — 3,413 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Master of His Fate (House o...

3.75 avg rating — 3,394 ratings — published 2018 — 23 editions
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“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.”
Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings

“Successful women don't sleep until noon.”
Barbara Taylor Bradford, Being Elizabeth

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