She then worked for a jeweller in Hatton Garden, where she weighed gems and typed. At the age of 16 she went to a business college, where she studied shorthand, typewriting, and languages. When she was quite young, her health forced her to be privately educated at home. 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. O元931521W Page_number_confidence 97.32 Pages 450 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211125030614 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 955 Scandate 20211123075716 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780449202395 Tts_version 4.Eleanor Alice Hibbert ( née Burford 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:07:25 Boxid IA40297421 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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