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. St.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. Uneasy Lies the Head // To Hold the Crown (Oct-1984) The Queen's Favourites // Courting Her Highness (1966) The Haunted Sisters // Royal Sisters (1966) The End of the Spanish Inquisition (1961) The Growth of the Spanish Inquisition (1960) The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition (1959) William's Wife // The Queen's Devotion (1990)

The Pleasures of Love // The Merry Monarch's Wife (Mar-1992) Myself, My Enemy // Loyal in Love (Jan-1984)

Hammer of the Scots // Edward Longshanks (1979) By the time of her death, she sold 56 millon copies as Victoria Holt, 14 as Jean Plaidy and, 3 as Phillipa Carr.įull Series List in Order Catherine de Medici Trilogy She died on Januat sea, somewhere between Greece and Port Said, Egypt. (Some of her novels were reedited as different pseudonyms). In 1972, she created her last pseudonym Philippa Carr. In 1960, she created the pseudonyms: Anna Percival and the popular Victoria Holt. In the 1950's she used the pseudonyms: Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate.

In 1941, she began signing her novels with her maiden name: Eleanor Burford, later she created her first and most prolific pseudonym: Jean Plaidy. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities. Eleanor Burford was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. She married ta leather merchant, George Percival Hibber, who shared her love of books and reading.

Eleanor Alice Burford was born on 1 September 1906 in Kensington, London, England.

The Road to Compiegne by Jean Plaidy