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Barbara Taylor Bradford, the ‘grand dame of blockbusters’, dies aged 91

By Editorial Board Published November 25, 2024 3 Min Read
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, the ‘grand dame of blockbusters’, dies aged 91

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the bestselling novelist who wrote A Girl Of Substance, has died on the age of 91.

The Leeds-born creator, who bought greater than 90 million books, died peacefully at her house on Sunday after a brief sickness and was “surrounded by loved ones to the very end”, a spokeswoman stated.

Taylor Bradford, who was usually labelled “the grand dame of blockbusters”, hit the massive time when A Girl Of Substance was printed in 1979, making her an in a single day success.

The story bought tens of millions of copies and traced the journey of Emma Harte from life as a servant in rural Yorkshire to heading a enterprise empire.

The rags to riches story was adopted by many different profitable books with the creator’s works being printed in additional than 40 languages throughout 90 nations.

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Pic: Caroll Taveras/Bradford Enterprises/PA

Barbara Taylor Bradford on her 21st birthday.
Pic: Bradford Enterprises/PA

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The creator on her twenty first birthday. Pic: Bradford Enterprises/PA

Charlie Redmayne, chief govt of writer HarperCollins, stated the creator was a “natural storyteller”, including: “Barbara Taylor Bradford was a truly exceptional writer whose first book, the international bestseller A Woman Of Substance, changed the lives of so many who read it – and still does to this day.”

Taylor Bradford, who was made an OBE in 2007 for companies to literature, wrote a complete of 40 novels throughout her profession – her most up-to-date was The Marvel Of It All, printed final 12 months.

Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Pic: Caroll Taveras/Bradford Enterprises/PA

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Pic: Caroll Taveras/Bradford Enterprises/PA

File photo dated 01/06/93 of Barbara Taylor Bradford with her husband Robert at Claridges Hotel, London, during a visit to launch her new blockbuster book "Angels". Bestselling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote A Woman of Substance, has died at the age of 91, it has been announced. Issue date: Monday November 25, 2024.

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Taylor Bradford along with her husband Robert in 1993. Pic: PA

Born in Could 1933 as the one youngster of Winston and Freda Taylor, she labored as a typist for the Yorkshire Night Submit earlier than turning into a reporter after which the paper’s first girl’s editor.

She met her husband, American movie producer Robert Bradford, in 1961 and so they married in London on Christmas Eve in 1963 earlier than transferring to New York the next 12 months.

The couple had been married for 55 years till he died from a stroke in 2019.

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