Victoria Holt

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1960
  • Latest Book:
    August 1993
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About the Author

Eleanor Alice Burford was born on 1 September 1906 in Kensington, London, England. She married a 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: 32 titles

  • Mistress of Mellyn

    House of Darkness From the moment Martha Leigh first glimpsed the cold, brooding manse high on the fog-shrouded Cornish cliffs, she felt a chill of apprehension. Then she met her employer, the arrogant master of Mellyn, and his spoiled, headstr...

  • Kirkland Revels

    Kirkland Revels loomed high above the wild and eerie Yorkshire moors like a brooding stone fortress. To some there was an atmosphere of evil about the place, but to innocent young bride Catherine Rockwell, the mansion seemed magnificently romantic. S...

  • Bride of Pendorric

    High on the Cornish cliffs, a young bride finds herself trapped in a nightmare world of terror and smiling betrayal. Favel Farington knew very little about her new husband. They met in Capri and the dashing young heir to Pendorric had swept the l...

  • The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

    According to legend six novices living in a Cornish convent strayed from their vows and were turned to stone. The seventh faced something quite different... Years later when the convent became the family mansion of the St. Larnston family, Fate be...

  • Menfreya in the Morning

    For Harriet Delvaney, the great house of Menfreya, standing like a fortress on the Cornish coast, had always been a citadel of happiness and high spirits. Not until she herself came to Menfreya as a bride did Harriet discover the secret family legen...

  • The King of the Castle

    Child of Death.... Monuments stood in the centre of the woodland grove. We were in the grave-yard of the de la Talles. "Here's my mother," Genevieve said, pointing to a little marble house. "All the de la Talles come here when they die." Someth...

  • The Queen's Confession

    Marie Antoinette -- Loved, hated, spoiled, sacrificed -- and now alive, in her own story, as she herself might have written it! The unforgettable story of Marie Antoinette, from her pampered childhood in imperial Vienna, to the luxury and sple...

  • The Shivering Sands

    A COASTLINE RICH IN ANCIENT RUINS... A FAMILY SCANDAL... AND FORBIDDEN LOVE... ARE BURIED IN THE SHIVERING SANDS Caroline Verlaine, lovely young widow of a world-famous pianist, comes to the legend-haunted Stacy estate to investigate the sudden...

  • The Secret Woman

    THEY SAY THERE IS A SECRET SELF IN EVERY WOMAN--ONE WITH A HIDDEN PASSION, OR A PRIVATE HAPPINESS, OR A SHADOWED FEAR.... To all appearances Anna Brett was merely a quiet, capable young woman whose only ambition was to carry on the profitable anti...



  • The Shadow of the Lynx

    Set against the sunny background of gold-rush Australia and the dark one of Victorian England, THE SHADOW OF THE LYNX is the story of Nora Tamasin, a strong-willed young woman who nevertheless falls under the power of the strange man called Lynx--and...

  • On the Night of the Seventh Moon

    On the night of the Seventh Moon, according to ancient Black Forest legend, Loke, the God of Mischief, is abroad in the world. It is a night for festivity and joyful celebration. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. H...

  • The Curse of the Kings

    "WHOEVER DISTURBS THE SLEEP OF THE KINGS WILL DIE." For centuries the tombs of the Pharaohs had been haunted with this curse. When two eminent archaeologists died mysteriously, Judith Osmond was certain that they had died because of the curse. ...

  • The House of a Thousand Lanterns

    The house she had dreamed of since childhood...The house where her worst nightmares were about to come true... Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background ...

  • The Mask of the Enchantress

    MATELANDS LIVED DANGEROUSLY AND I WAS A MATELAND. I KNEW I WAS GOING TO ATTEMPT THIS OUTRAGEOUS MASQUERADE. I KNEW IT WAS WRONG, BUT I HAD TO DO IT. From the moment young Suewellyn caught her first glimpse of the Mateland family castle, she knew s...

  • Lord of the Far Island

    Lovely Ellen Kellaway knew very little about her past. Orphaned as a child and taken in by her arrogant mean-minded cousin as a 'poor relation'; she was grateful when the handsome young son of a wealthy family asked for her hand. But mysterio...

  • The Pride of the Peacock

    A magnificent opal that carries a deadly curse... A great English estate that is lost and born anew... The wilds and dangers of turn-of-the-century Australia... A marriage of convenience--and secret desire... No one will tell Jessica Clavering of...

  • The Devil on Horseback

    From the moment that beautiful eighteen-year-old Minella Maddox saw Charles-Augueste, the haughty, arrogant Comte Fontaine Delibes, his satanic looks thrilled her with a sense of danger and excitement. A French aristocrat of wealth and power, the Co...

  • My Enemy the Queen

    Lettice Devereux was beautiful, sophisticated, and impetuous... And she was used to getting her way. Her unbridled passions were exceeded only by her scheming mind. Lettice married the Earl of Leicester, stealing him away from another woman. And Lett...

  • The Spring of the Tiger

    When Sarah Ashington's actress mother dies after a devastating scandal, Sarah is left at her long-lost father's rambling, ancestral estate, to face the disturbinbg questions of her own past. Then her father's death draws her to his Ceylon plantation ...



  • The Judas Kiss

    The splendor and pomp of the Bavarian kingdom had seemed like a fairy tale to the recently arrived young Englishwoman. Pippa Ewell had left behind dark and forbidding Greystone Manor, and the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept he...

  • The Demon Lover

    IT BEGINS AS A SMALL DECEPTION. IT BECOMES A NIGHTMARE OF PASSION AND TERROR... Kate Collison is exquisitely beautiful and filled with fiery spirit. Like all the Collisons before her, she paints miniatures. So when her father begins to lose his ...

  • The Time of the Hunter's Moon

    SHE KNEW TWO MEN. ONE WAS A MURDERER. ONE WAS A LOVER. Cordelia Grant wonders if she is dreaming after she sees a handsome stranger in the forest at the time of the hunter's moon, the time the legends say a girl will see her future husband. Hau...

  • The Landower Legacy

    SHE HAD EVERYTHING. BEAUTY. A TITLE. AN INHERITANCE. AND A SECRET THAT COULD DESTROY IT ALL. Green-eyed Caroline Tressidor seemingly has her whole world before her -- until the long-heralded occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. When an exu...

  • The Road to Paradise Island

    A SEALED ROOM. A MYSTERIOUS MAP. A DEAD GIRL'S DESPERATELY PENNED JOURNAL... FOR ANNALICE, THEY LEAD TO DISCOVERY -- AND DANGER.... Annalice Mallory, sheltered daughter of a family of mapmakers, is thrown into a world of intrigue and high adventu...

  • Secret for a Nightingale

    She had the gift of healing others. If only she could heal her heart... IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND, A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOME. SHE DARES TO BE DIFFERENT... As a young girl in India, beautiful, high-spirited Susanna Pleydell first becomes aware...

  • The Silk Vendetta

    Amidst the lush romance of Victorian London, Florence, and Paris, a desdly family rivalry is born... As long as she can remember, the exquisite Lenore Cleremont has lived at The Silk House, the luxurious English country estate of the wealthy Sall...

  • The India Fan

    The daughter of the local impoverished vicar, sensible Drusilla Delany becomes fascinated with the wealthy Framling family--especially with the son and daughter, the handsome, mysterious Fabian, and the beautiful, impetuous Lavinia. Through them, she...

  • The Captive

    ROSETTA KNOWS LITTLE OF LIFE BEYOND THE SCHOOLROOM... Until she finds herself shipwrecked off the African coast. Saved from the raging seas by the ship's handsome, mysterious deckhand, she soon discovers her hero is fellow-Londoner Simon Perri...

  • Snare of Serpents

    `A sinister influence began to creep into the house-vaguely, insidiously at first until it culminated in the tragedy which threatened to ruin my life...:' Davina Glentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made...



  • Daughter of Deceit

    IT WAS DESPERATELY IMPORTANT THAT I DRAW MYSELF OUT OF THIS MAZE OF MISERY IN WHICH I WAS CAUGHT. Noelle Tremaston has led a charmed yet unconventional life as the daughter of the infamous Desiree, darling of the London stage. But the flurry and ...

  • Seven for a Secret

    "Secrets! I was looking for secrets everywhere." Tragedy brought young Frederica to the idyllic hamlet of Harper's Green, where she was drawn subtly into the lives of its inhabitants: lovely Aunt Sophie, gentle Rachel Grey, headstrong Tamarisk St....

  • The Black Opal

    Abandoned as a baby, her exotic beauty prompted hushed whispers of gypsy blood. But lovely Carmel March remained shrouded in mystery .... When tragedy struck her adopted home of Commonwood House, little Carmel had been bundled off to Australia. R...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Victoria Holt has published 32 books.

Victoria Holt does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Black Opal, was published in August 1993.

The first book by Victoria Holt, Mistress of Mellyn, was published in January 1960.

No. Victoria Holt does not write books in series.
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