in the shadow of the crown by jean plaidy

1886–1966), a wholesale leather merchant about twenty years older than herself, who shared her love of books and reading. In her early twenties she married George Percival Hibbert ( c.

She also worked as a language interpreter in a café for French and German-speaking tourists. She then worked for a jeweller in Hatton Garden, where she weighed gems and typed. At the age of 16 she went to a business college, where she studied shorthand, typewriting, and languages. When she was quite young, her health forced her to be privately educated at home. Her mother was Alice Louise Burford, née Tate. She inherited a love of reading from her father, Joseph Burford, a dock labourer. Hibbert was born Eleanor Alice Burford on 1 September 1906 at 20 Burke Street, Canning Town, now part of the London borough of Newham. (The ship is seen here in 1986 at Venice). Personal life Įleanor Hibbert died aboard the cruise ship Sea Princess in 1993. She continues to be a widely borrowed author among British libraries. By the time of her death, she had written more than 200 books that sold more than 100 million copies and had been translated into 20 languages. In 1989, the Romance Writers of America gave her the Golden Treasure award in recognition of her contributions to the romance genre. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms 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. (here they list several books in the 'Queens of England' series)īut several of these series overlap historically.Eleanor Alice Hibbert ( née Burford 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. I can find lists for the various series of the original titles, but not so much for the newer ones. I've been doing some searching around the internet (with limited success) trying a rough historical reading order for Jean Plaidy's books that have been reprinted by Three Rivers Press.

In the shadow of the crown by jean plaidy