By the time of her death, the novels of Jean Plaidy had sold morethan 14 million copies worldwide. She died on Januat sea, somewhere between Greece and Port Said, Egypt. In her early twenties, she married a leather merchant, George Percival Hibbert, whoshared her love of books and reading. She was an avid reader from the age of four onwards. (Some of her novels werereedited as different pseudonyms)Įleanor Alice Burford was born on Septemin Kensington, London.Her father, Joseph Burford, was something of an odd-job man, with no steady profession, but he quickly passed on his great love of books to his youngdaughter. In 1972, she created her last pseudonym Philippa Carr. In 1960, shecreated 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 createdher first and most prolific pseudonym: Jean Plaidy. She used eight pennames during her career and many of her readersunder one penname never suspected her other identities. George Percival Hibbert, was one of the preeminent English authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century.
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