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Родилась: 1 September 1906 (Kensington, London, England)

   Eleanor Alice Burford was born on 1 September 1906 in Kensington, London, England. She married ta leather merchant, George Percival Hibber, 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, she sold 56 millon copies as Victoria Holt, 14 as Jean Plaidy and, 3 as Phillipa Carr.

Книги автора Jean Plaidy

  • 8 октября 2016, 12:50
скачать книгу It Began in Vauxhall Gardens автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


The fictionalized account of one of 19th-­century England's most notorious scandals, by one of Britain's premier historical novelists. In this story, so full of excitement and mystery that it would seem...

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  • 8 октября 2016, 12:42
скачать книгу The Heart of the Lion  автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


At the age of thirty-­two, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne. And, against his father's wishes, he intends to make Berengaria, daughter of the King of Navarre,...

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  • 8 октября 2016, 10:30
скачать книгу Queen of This Realm автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-­powerful father; a captive in the Tower...

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  • 7 октября 2016, 00:34
скачать книгу The Red Rose of Anjou автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be better suited to a quiet life than to ruling the country. Richard, Duke of York, is convinced that he would make a better king and has more...

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  • 29 сентября 2016, 03:33
скачать книгу The Revolt of the Eaglets автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


News of Thomas a Becket's martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom and the blame is laid at the feet of Henry Plantagenet, King of England. Two years later, with Becket canonised, Henry's position is...

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  • 29 сентября 2016, 01:51
скачать книгу Queen in Waiting  автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


When Caroline of Ansbach arrives in England, King George is old and sour, his mistress ugly and his wife imprisoned at his own hand for over twenty years. She has grown up watching her mother Eleanor's...

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  • 26 сентября 2016, 20:30
скачать книгу The Plantagenet Prelude  автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


A totally engrossing book, one which covers the Plantagenet years under Eleanor of Acquitaine and her husband, King Louis of France. Eleanor was a strong, forceful character, as different from her husband...

  • Просмотров: 407
  • 26 сентября 2016, 17:25
скачать книгу The Sun in Splendour автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


Reckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward the fourth has risen to the throne with the help of Warwick, the kingmaker. But even Warwick's trusted advice cannot convince...

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  • 26 сентября 2016, 15:01
скачать книгу Royal Road to Fotheringhay  автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


At just six days old, Mary Stuart became Queen of Scots. At just six years old she was betrothed to the Dauphin François, the future King of France.­Reluctantly leaving Scotland, Mary is raised in the...

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  • 26 сентября 2016, 14:38
скачать книгу The Prince and the Quakeress  автора Jean Plaidy

Жанр(ы): Исторические любовные романы, Исторические приключения


Bringing history to life, Plaidy tells the story of a young, idealistic Prince of Wales... The Prince of Wales develops a deep affection for a beautiful quakeress, Hannah Lightfoot, who catches his eye...

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