Jean plaidy biography

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Eleanor Alice Burford

English author (1906–1993)

Eleanor Alice Burford

Born	Eleanor Alice Burford (1906-09-01)1 September 1906 Canning Town, London, England
Died	18 January 1993(1993-01-18) (aged 86) At sea between Athens, Greece, and Port Said, Egypt
Pen name	Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	English
Citizenship	British
Period	1941–1993 (52 years)
Genre	Historical fiction, Gothic fiction, Romantic fiction
Notable awards	Romance Writers of America – Golden Treasure award 1989 Significant contribution to the romance genre
Spouse	George Percival Hibbert
Relatives	Joseph Burford (father) Alice Louise Tate (mother)
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Eleanor Alice Hibbert (néeBurford; 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 f

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Jean Plaidy

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(Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert)
(1906 - 1993)

aka Eleanor Burford, Philippa Carr, Elbur Water, Victoria Holt, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, Ellalice Tate

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Obituary: Jean Plaidy

Eleanor Hibbert (Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Ellalice Tate, Philippa Carr), novelist, born c1910, married George Hibbert (deceased), died at sea between Athens and Port Said 18 January 1993.

JEAN PLAIDY, whose real name was Eleanor Hibbert, was also known to millions of readers as Victoria Holt and Philippa Carr. She had an instinctive appreciation of solid worth - her own and other people's. She enjoyed her worldwide success, but she was the least pretentious or publicity-seeking of authors, preferring to get on with what she saw as her job: the writing of novels which delighted her readers and taught two generations of teenagers to perceive history as an enthralling human story rather than a recital of dry facts.

She was born and bred a Londoner - a fact of which she was immensely proud, although she never revealed her maiden name or date of birth - and at an early age determined (and that is the word) to be a writer. She set about it by writing 1,000-word short stories under various names for the Evening Standard. Having honed her skills, she turned to full-length fiction. Her first Plaidy novel, Beyond the Blue Mountains (1947), was rejected by several publishers as too long, but eventually Robert Hale perceived its wor