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Kathleen Kellow
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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.
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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It Began in Vauxhall Gardens // Melisande
- 1955
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A nineteenth century story based on a true crime in which a young woman isdriven to murdering a man she loathes. Reedited as Melisande....
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Call of the Blood
- 1956
- / General Fiction
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Based on a true crime story and the bond between two men which leads to the murdering the husband of the woman that one of them loves....
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Rochester: The Mad Earl
- 1957
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This is the true story of John Wilmott, Earl of Rochester, a poet and libertine who lived at the time of King Charles II....
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Milady Charlotte
- 1959
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The true story of Charlotte Walpole, an English lady, who, amongst other things, got caught up with Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution of 1789....
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The World's a Stage
- 1960
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The true story of the eighteenth century British actor David Garrick and his lover, Peg Woffington....