Eleanor Hibbert
Eleanor Alice Burford (
September 1,
1906 -
January 8,
1993), Mrs. George Percival
Hibbert, was a British author of about 200 historical novels, most of them under the pennames
Jean Plaidy,
Philippa Carr, and
Victoria Holt. She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter. Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identities.