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A Short Biography of Eleanor Hibbert

Author Name:

Eleanor Hibbert

Born As:

Eleanor Alice Burford

Other Names:

Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr, Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate.

Born:

01 Sep 1906

Died:

18 Jan 1993




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Selected Works:

As Eleanor Burford: Single novels

Daughter of Anna - 1941
Passionate Witness - 1941
The Married Lover - 1942
When The Entire World is Young - 1943
So The Dreams Depart - 1944
Not in Our Stars - 1945
Dear Chance - 1947
Alexa - 1948
The House at Cupid's Cross - 1949
Believe The Heart - 1950
Saint or Sinner - 1951
Bright Tomorrow - 1952
Dear Delusion - 1952
Leave me my Love - 1953
When we are Married - 1953
Castles in Spain - 1954
Heart's Afire - 1954
Two Loves in Her Life - 1955
When Other Hearts - 1955
Begin to Live - 1956
Married in Haste - 1956
To Meet a Stranger - 1957
Blaze of Noon - 1958
Pride in the Morning - 1958
Red Sky at Night - 1959
The Dawn Chorus - 1959
Night of Stars - 1960
Now That April's Gone - 1961
Who's Calling? - 1962

Daughters of England Series:
6. The Love Child - 1950 - later re-published under the Philippa Carr name

The Tudor Saga:
11. Gay Lord Robert - 1955 - later re-published under the Jean Plaidy name


The Mary Stuart Queen of Scots Series:

Royal Road to Fotheringhay - 1955 - later re-published under the Jean Plaidy name

As Jean Plaidy:
Many Jean Plaidy books were published under different titles in the United States. Her trilogies were also later republished as single books often under different titles than those shown.

Single novels:
Together They Ride - 1945
Beyond the Blue Mountains - 1948
The Goldsmith's Wife - 1950 - aka The King's Mistress
Daughter of Satan - 1952
Lilith - 1954
Melisande - It Began in Vauxhall Gardens - 1955
The Scarlet Cloak - 1957
Milady Charlotte - 1959
Evergreen Gallant - 1965
Defenders of the Faith* - 1971
Madame du Barry* - 1994
The King's Adventurer* - 1996 - Originally This Was a Man by Ellalice Tate

The Tudor Saga:

Uneasy Lies the Head - 1982
Katharine the Virgin Widow - 1961
The Shadow of the Pomegranate - 1962
The King's Secret Matter - 1962
Murder Most Royal - 1949
Saint Thomas' Eve - 1954
The Sixth Wife - 1953
The Thistle and the Rose - 1963
Mary Queen of France - 1964
The Spanish Bridegroom - 1954
Gay Lord Robert - 1955 - first by Eleanor Burford republished as Lord Robert in 2007
Katharine of Aragon - omnibus of 2-4
[edit]The Catherine De Medici Trilogy
Madame Serpent - 1951
The Italian Woman - 1952 - aka The Unholy Woman
Queen Jezebel - 1953
Catherine De Medici - omnibus - 1969

The Mary Stuart Queen of Scots Series:

Royal Road to Fotheringhay* - 1955 - first published as by Eleanor Burford
The Captive Queen of Scots - 1963

The Stuart Saga:

The Murder in the Tower - 1964
A Health Unto His Majesty - 1956
The Wandering Prince - 1956
Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord - 1957
The Three Crowns - 1965
The Haunted Sisters - 1966
The Queen's Favourites - 1966
The Loves of Charles II - omnibus of 2-4
[edit]The French Revolution Series
Louis the Well Beloved - 1959
The Road to Compiegne - 1959
Flaunting Extravagant Queen - 1957

The Lucrezia Borgia Series:
Madonna of the Seven Hills - 1958
Light on Lucrezia - 1958

The Isabella and Ferdinand Trilogy:
Castile for Isabella - 1960
Spain for the Sovereigns - 1960
Daughter of Spain - 1961
Isabella and Ferdinand - Omnibus - 1970

The Georgian Saga:

The Princess of Celle - 1967
Queen in Waiting - 1967
Caroline the Queen - 1968
The Prince and the Quakeress - 1975
The Third George - 1969
Perdita's Prince - 1969
Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill - 1970
Indiscretions of the Queen - 1970
The Regent's Daughter - 1971
Goddess of the Green Room - 1971
Victoria in the Wings - 1972

The Queen Victoria Series:

The Captive of Kensington Palace - 1972
The Queen and Lord M - 1973
The Queen's Husband - 1973
The Widow of Windsor - 1974

The Norman Trilogy:

The Bastard King - 1974
The Lion of Justice - 1975
The Passionate Enemies - 1976

The Plantagenet Saga:

The Plantagenet Prelude - 1976
The Revolt of the Eaglets - 1977
The Heart of the Lion - 1977
The Prince of Darkness - 1978
The Battle of the Queens - 1978
The Queen from Provence - 1979
Edward Longshanks - 1979 - republished as The Hammer of the Scots in 2008
The Follies of the King - 1980
The Vow on the Heron - 1980
Passage to Pontefract - 1981
The Star of Lancaster - 1981
Epitaph for Three Women - 1981
Red Rose of Anjou - 1982
The Sun in Splendour - 1982

The Queens of England Series:

Myself My Enemy - 1983
Queen of This Realm - 1984
Victoria Victorious - 1985
The Lady in the Tower - 1986
The Courts of Love - 1987
In the Shadow of the Crown - 1988
The Queen's Secret - 1989
The Reluctant Queen - 1990
The Pleasures of Love - 1991
William's Wife - 1992
Rose Without a Thorn - 1993

Children's novels:

Meg Roper daughter of Sir Thomas More - 1961
The Young Elizabeth - 1961
The Young Mary Queen of Scots - 1962
[edit]The Spanish Inquisition Series - non-fiction
The Rise of the Spanish Inquisition - 1959
The Growth of the Spanish Inquisition - 1960
The End of the Spanish Inquisition - 1961

Historical non-fiction:
Mary Queen of Scots: The Fair Devil of Scotland - 1975
A Triptych of Poisoners

As Elbur Ford: Single novels

Poison in Pimlico - 1950
The Flesh and the Devil - 1950
Bed Disturbed - 1952
Evil in the House* - 1953

As Kathleen Kellow: Single novels:
Some of these novels were re-published under the Jean Plaidy name

Danse Macabre - 1952
Rooms at Mrs. Oliver's - 1953
Lilith - 1954
It Began in Vauxhall Gardens - 1955
Call of the Blood - 1956
Rochester the Mad Earl - 1957
Milady Charlotte - 1959
The World's a Stage - 1960

As Ellalice Tate:
All these novels were later re-published under the Jean Plaidy name
Single novels:

Defenders of the Faith - 1956
The Scarlet Cloak - 1957
The Queen of Diamonds - 1958
Madame du Barry - 1959
This was a Man - 1961 - re-published as The King's Adventurer by Jean Plaidy


As Anna Percival: Single novel
Brides of Lanlory - 1960/01

As Victoria Holt: Single novels
Mistress of Mellyn - 1960
Kirkland Revels - 1962
Bride of Pendorric - 1963
The Legend of the Seventh Virgin - 1965
Menfreya in the Morning - 1966
The King of the Castle - 1967
The Queen's Confession: The Story of Marie-Antoinette - 1968
The Shivering Sands - 1969
The Secret Woman - 1970
Shadow of the Lynx - 1971
On the Night of the Seventh Moon - 1972
The Curse of the Kings - 1973
The House of a Thousand Lanterns - 1974
Lord of the Far Island - 1975
The Pride of the Peacock - 1976
Devil on Horseback - 1977
My Enemy the Queen - 1978
Spring of the Tiger - 1979
Mask of the Enchantress - 1980
Judas Kiss - 1981
The Demon Lover - 1982
The Time of the Hunter's Moon - 1983
The Landower Legacy - 1984
The Road to Paradise Island - 1985
Secret for a Nightingale - 1986
Silk Vendetta - 1987
The India Fan - 1988
The Captive - 1989
Snare of Serpents - 1990
Daughter of Deceit - 1991
Seven for a Secret - 1992
The Black Opal - 1993

Omnibus:
Remember Remember: The Selected Stories of Winifred Holtby - 2000

Anthologies in collaboration:

"The Bride of Pendorric" in Three Great Romantic Stories - 1972 - with Hebe Elsna and Lucy Walker

As Philippa Carr: Daughters of England Series

Miracle At St. Bruno's - 1972
The Lion Triumphant - 1973
Witch from the Sea - 1975
Saraband for Two Sisters - 1976
Lament for a Lost Lover - 1977
The Love Child - 1950 - first published under the name Eleanor Burford
The Song of the Siren - 1980
The Drop of the Dice - 1981
The Adulteress - 1982
Zipporah's Daughter - 1983
Voices in a Haunted Room - 1984
The Return of the Gypsy - 1985
Midsummer's Eve - 1986
The Pool of Saint Branok - 1987
The Changeling - 1989
The Black Swan - 1990
A Time for Silence - 1991
The Gossamer Cord - 1992
We'll Meet Again - 1993

Single novels:

Daughters of England - 1995                          
Husband George Percival Hibbert