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Eleanor Burford
AuthorBooks · Second hand1906-1993
Eleanor Alice Hibbert 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.
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About Eleanor Burford
Birth
1906
Death
1993
First book
1941
Years writing
85
Eleanor Alice Hibbert 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.
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Eleanor Burford was a prolific English novelist who wrote an astonishing 291 works throughout her career.
Born in Kensington, London, she developed a love for reading at a very early age, becoming an avid reader by the age of four.
Her father, Joseph Burford, was the one who passed on his deep passion for books to her during her childhood.
Throughout her career, she used eight different pen names, often keeping her various literary identities hidden from her readers.
She is recognized as one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction in the twentieth century, with Mistress of Mellyn being one of her most iconic works.
