
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a giant of postwar British literature. Her 40 novels sold more than 91mn copies and she transformed the landscape of fiction, writing books about women who — like their author — set themselves goals which they achieved and surpassed. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 when she was 46 years old: like Toni Morrison, Annie Proulx, Penelope Fitzgerald and many other eminent women writers, success came after 40.
芭芭拉•泰勒•布拉德福德是战后英国文学的巨匠。她的40部小说销量超过9100万册,她通过撰写关于女性的书籍改变了小说的格局,这些女性——如同作者本人——设定了目标并实现甚至超越了这些目标。她的第一部小说《一个真正的女人》(A Woman of Substance)于1979年出版,当时她46岁:如同托妮•莫里森(Toni Morrison)、安妮•普露(Annie Proulx)、佩内洛普•菲茨杰拉德(Penelope Fitzgerald)和许多其他杰出的女性作家一样,成功是在40岁之后到来的。