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Eleanor Hibbert

1906 - 1993

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Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. 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 and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate. In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her contributions to the romance genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eleanor Hibbert is the 1,716th most popular writer (up from 3,995th in 2019), the 1,540th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,870th in 2019) and the 165th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 1,716 out of 7,302. Before her are Denis Fonvizin, Rafael Sabatini, Patricia Cornwell, Robert Harris, Jurji Zaydan, and Väinö Linna. After her are Giorgio Bassani, Frederic W. H. Myers, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Camilla Läckberg, and Antoine de Montchrestien.

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Among people born in 1906, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 99. Before her are Joaquín Balaguer, Franz Hössler, Piero Taruffi, Heinz Harmel, Junio Valerio Borghese, and Curtis LeMay. After her are Louise Brooks, George Sanders, Humberto Delgado, Heinrich Schwarz, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, and Pierre Fournier. Among people deceased in 1993, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 61. Before her are Rahmon Nabiyev, Leonid Gaidai, Léo Ferré, Roy Raymond, Eddie Constantine, and Yen Chia-kan. After her are Yuri Lotman, Tofiq Bahramov, Silvina Ocampo, Raymond Burr, Sebastiano Baggio, and Meliton Kantaria.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 1,540 out of 8,785. Before her are Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (1424), R. G. Collingwood (1889), Robert Harris (1957), Sydney Chaplin (1885), Edith Cavell (1865), and Sid Watkins (1928). After her are Albert Hammond (1944), Constantine II of Scotland (801), Tom Pryce (1949), Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Henry Gray (1827), and Idris Elba (1972).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 165. Before her are Michael Moorcock (1939), John Gay (1685), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Karen Armstrong (1944), and Robert Harris (1957). After her are Frederic W. H. Myers (1843), Edward Lear (1812), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Aphra Behn (1640), Colin Dexter (1930), and Ted Hughes (1930).

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