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Ellalice Tate
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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: 5 titles
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Defenders of the Faith
- Jan-1956
- / Historical Romance
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This is a powerful story of the troubleous days when Tudor succession was indispute. The chief characters are two contrasting cousins - one daring, brave and adventurous; the other quiet, reserved and thoughtful. But each has his own kind of courage....
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The Scarlet Cloak
- Jan-1957
- / Historical Romance
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Blasco Carramadino and his older brother, Domingo, are caught up in the plans King Philip II to overthrow the British government and restore Catholicism....
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The Queen of Diamonds
- 1958
- / General Fiction
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The affair of the diamond necklace shook the throne of France, probably precipitating the French Revolution and the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. But why should these events fall so neatly into place? And why was an ambitious, predator...
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Madame du Barry
- 1959
- / General Fiction
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SHE COULD DAZZLE KING AND COMMONER ALIKE - BUT NOT FOR EVER... Marie Jeanne Becu began life as the illegitimate daughter of a humble cook, but by the time she was twenty-three she had become Madame du Barry, the official mistress of King Louis XV of ...
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This Was a Man
- 1961
- / General Fiction
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From his earliest boyhood John Smith wanted to go adventuring over the sea, and though his parents meant him for a farmer he knew some special destiny awaited him. He followed his dream through Europe, even to fighting the Infidel and serving a cruel...