![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. ![]() Eleanor Alice Hibbert ( née Burford 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. ![]()
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