Some of her most popular pen names include Victoria Holt, Eleanor Burford, Anna Percival, Philippa Carr, Elbur Ford, Ellalice Tate, Kathleen Kellow, and Jean Plaidy. Author Plaidy used to publish several books every year in different genres and for each of her genres she used to use a different pseudonym. She was particularly famous for combining facts and imagination for bringing alive history through her books of romance and fiction. Her popular works of historical fiction are appreciated by readers and critics alike for their accuracy, quality of writing, and attention to detail.īio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Jean Plaidy is the pen name of a prolific English novelist and author named Eleanor Alice Buford Hibbert, who liked to write historical fiction, romantic fiction, and gothic fiction novels. She continues to be a widely borrowed author among lending libraries. By the time of her death, she had written more than 200 books that worldwide sold more than 100 million copies in 20 languages. In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her significant contributions to the romance genre.
A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate. 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 Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga.
Eleanor Hibbert (1 September 1906 – 19 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance.
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