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 * 1 Author Background
 * 2 Novel Apperance/Common Themes
 * 3 Short Plot Summary
 * 4 The Novel in Time
 * 5 References

Author Background[edit]
Barbara Taylor Bradford is a well-known author from England. She began writing fictional stories when she was only seven years old, and her first publication was when she was ten. At age fifteen, she enrolled in typing school. By eighteen, she was the Yorkshire Evening Post’s first woman editor, and by twenty, she was a fashion editor in London.

Barbara Taylor Bradford has published a large collection of mystery/romance novels within her nearly-30 year publishing career. She has published roughly one novel per year since the release of her very first novel, A Woman of Substance. It was published in 1979, and her most recent novel, Secrets of Cavendon, was published earlier this year (2017).

She praises her husband, Robert Bradford, for a lot of her inspiration with her novels. Every one of her novels she has published since she met Robert has been dedicated to him. They met on a blind date in 1961, and married in 1963.

Barbara Taylor Bradford has been published in nearly forty languages in ninety countries.

Many of her books reached “best seller” status, including her 1990 romance novel, The Women in His Life.

Novel Apperance/Common Themes[edit]
The novel appeared in the very early 90’s. During this period, romance novels were following a common theme. The novels were very heteronormative, and the “bad boy” with a lot of money won over a beautiful girl, and sometimes more than one beautiful girl.

Barbara Taylor Bradford incorporated static characters into her novels alongside more dynamic characters. In the 1990's novels were mainly focused on dynamic male characters with semi-dynamic female characters. The male characters were presented as strong, well-rounded people with opinions that were not going anywhere. Women were presented as sometimes stubborn, but not stubborn enough to keep opinions that differentiated from her male counterpart's opinions.

The Women in His Life is no acception to the time's characteristics.

Short Plot Summary[edit]
The Women in His Life is a follow-up novel to her first novel, A Woman of Substance. Maximilian West is an English cooperate businessman and billionaire. The novel follows him through his struggles as a powerful and charming man, and the many women he is encountering. There are four main women in the novel, including his first wife, and English actress, and mistress, and a fellow business woman. Some of the settings of this novel include Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. Throughout the novel, readers are going along for the ride with Maximillian and his push-and-pull relationship with wanting to please multiple women while also keeping his businessman exterior alive.

In 1996, the novel was turned into a radio drama on BBC Radio-2.

The Novel in Time[edit]
This novel is very much about external temptations in conjunction with internal goals and wants. The heavy romantic tones are something very common in novels of this time. Barbara Taylor Bradford explores a dynamic, young male character, which easily transfers over into today's want for problematic heroes. In the perspective of women characters, the women fall into the semi-dynamic characters. They are there as pieces to continue the story of Maximillian instead of as stories themselves. That aspect of Barbara Taylor Bradford's style of writing is not as transferable to what people want in a "bestseller" today.

References[edit]

 * 1) ^ Jump up to: a b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Taylor_Bradford
 * 2) ^ Jump up to: a b Bradford, Barbara Taylor. The Women in His Life. Guild Publishing, 1990.
 * 3) Jump up ^ http://www.barbarataylorbradford.com/