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Eleanor Alice Burford

  • Kathleen Kellow
  • Elbur Ford
  • Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert
  • Eleanor Burford
  • Ellalice Tate
  • Anna Percival
  • Jean Plaidy
  • Eleanor Hibbert
  • Victoria Holt
  • Philippa Carr
  • Eleanor Hibbert
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Burford, Eleanor Alice
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Female
Date of birth
1906-09-01
Place of birth
Canning Town
Date of death
1993-01-18
Place of death
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Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.

In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her contributions to the romance genre. By the time of her death, she had written more than 200 books that sold more than 100 million copies and had been translated into 20 languages. She continues to be a widely borrowed author among British libraries.

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English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.

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