Victoria Holt
01 September 1906 - 18 January 1993
Eleanor Alice Burford was born on September 01, 1906 in Kensington, London. Her father, Joseph Burford, was something of an odd-job man, with no steady profession, but he quickly passed on his great love of books to his young daughter. She was an avid reader from the age of four onwards. In her early twenties, she married a leather merchant, George Percival Hibbert, who shared her love of books and reading.
Eleanor Burford was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities. In 1941, she began signing her novels with her maiden name: Eleanor Burford, later she created her first and most prolific pseudonym: Jean Plaidy. In the 1950's she used the pseudonyms: Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate. In 1960, she created the pseudonyms: Anna Percival and the popular Victoria Holt. In 1972, she created her last pseudonym Philippa Carr. (Some of her novels were reedited as different pseudonyms)
She died on January 18, 1993 at sea, somewhere between Greece and Port Said, Egypt. By the time of her death, the novels of Jean Plaidy had sold more than 14 million copies worldwide. Her last novel The Black Opal as Victoria Holt was published posthumously, under this pseudonym, she sold 56 millon copies and as Phillipa Carr, 3 million.
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The House of a Thousand Lanterns
24 editions - first published in 1973 Checked out -
Mistress of Mellyn
21 editions - first published in 1960 -
The Queen's confession: a fictional autobiography
20 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow -
My enemy the Queen
20 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow -
The king of the castle
20 editions - first published in 1967 Checked out -
The curse of the kings
20 editions - first published in 1973 Checked out -
The shadow of the Lynx
19 editions - first published in 1971 Checked out -
The shivering sands
18 editions - first published in 1969 Checked out -
The Judas kiss
18 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow -
The legend of the seventh virgin
18 editions - first published in 1964 Checked out -
The demon lover
17 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
On the night of the seventh moon
17 editions - first published in 1972 Checked out -
The mask of the enchantress
17 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow -
The devil on horseback
16 editions - first published in 1977 Borrow -
The captive
16 editions - first published in 1989 Borrow -
Bride of Pendorric
16 editions - first published in 1963 Borrow -
The time of the hunter's moon
14 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
The road to Paradise Island
14 editions - first published in 1985 Borrow -
Lord of the Far Island
14 editions - first published in 1975 Checked out -
The Secret Woman
14 editions - first published in 1970 Borrow -
Menfreya
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The silk vendetta
13 editions - first published in 1987 Borrow -
Kirkland Revels
13 editions - first published in 1962 Borrow -
The Landower legacy
13 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow -
The spring of the tiger
13 editions - first published in 1979 Borrow -
Secret for a Nightingale
12 editions - first published in 1986 Borrow -
The pride of the peacock
11 editions - first published in 1976 Borrow -
The India fan
10 editions - first published in 1988 DAISY -
Seven for a secret
10 editions - first published in 1992 Borrow -
Daughter of deceit
9 editions - first published in 1991 Checked out -
Menfreya in the morning
9 editions - first published in 1966 Borrow -
Snare of serpents
9 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow -
The black opal
8 editions - first published in 1993 Borrow -
The devil on horseback
3 editions - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Lord of Far Island
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Menfreya in Morning
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The demon lover
2 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
La máscara de la hechicera
2 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow -
Mistress of Mellyn
2 editions - first published in 1960 Borrow -
The House of a Thousand Lanterns (English Library)
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La Isla Del Paraiso/the Road to Paradise Island
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Kaukaisen saaren valtias (Am. Lord of the Far Island)
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KING OF THE CASTLE
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El Jinete del diablo/ The Devil on Horseback
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El Salto Del Tigre/the Spring of the Tiger
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
La Señora de Mellyn
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
El Jinete Del Diablo/Devil on Horseback
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Ste skia tou pyrgou
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
LA Mujer Secreta/the Secret Woman (Coleccion Ancora Y Delfin, V. 381)
1 edition - first published in 1980 -
LA Mascara De LA Hechicera/Mask of the Enchantress
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
El Amante Diabolico / The Demon Lover
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El Orgullo Del Pavo Real/the Pride of the Peacock
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
El Beso De Judas/the Judas Kiss (Coleccion Contemporanea)
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Las Arenas Movedizas/the Shivering Sands (Destinolibro, 177)
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
LA Mujer Secreta/the Secret Woman
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
LA Sombra Del Lince/the Shadow of the Lynx (Destinolibro, 193)
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
The shadow of the Lynx / Victoria Holt
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Gizli Kadan
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Gizli Kadin
1 edition - first published in 1972 -
Satonum gelini
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Die Insel Eden
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Tanz der Masken
1 edition - first published in 1981 -
The India fan
1 edition - first published in 1988 -
The Pride of the Peacock
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
El Señor De Far Island/the Lord of the Far Island
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
The Spring of the Tiger
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
La Noche de la Séptima Luna (Destinolibro, 199)
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Ben Marie Antoinette
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Satodaki melek
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Ambición Mortal
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Mi enemiga la Reina
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow -
The pride of the peacock
1 edition - first published in 1976 Borrow -
Seven for a secret
1 edition - first published in 1993 Borrow -
The spring of the tiger
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow -
Reader's digest condensed books: volume 4, 1978.
1 edition - first published in 1978 Borrow -
Reader's digest condensed books: volume 1, 1982.
1 edition - first published in 1981 Borrow -
Mistress of Mellyn and Kirkland revels
1 edition - first published in 1960 Borrow
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Alternative names
- Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert
- Eleanor Burford
- Jean Plaidy
- Elbur Ford
- Kathleen Kellow
- Ellalice Tate
- Anna Percival
- Victoria Holt
- Philippa Carr
- Jean; Carr, Philippa; Holt, Victoria Plaidy
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