News emerged this week of a rift between the grande dame of romantic fiction Barbara Cartland and historical novelist Georgette Heyer. Heyer accused Cartland of stealing character names and situations from her novels and using them in a “common minded, salacious and illiterate” manner. Miaow. I’ve read a few Barbara Cartland books in my time, I don’t know know if she plagerised Heyer but she certainly copied from herself, over and over and over again!