Eleanor Hibbert
（重定向自Victoria Holt）
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![Map 1908, showing Eleanor Hibbert's birthplace Canning Town to the north of Royal Victoria Dock.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Canning_Town_and_Royal_Victoria_Dock_19084857.jpg")
![A shop in Hatton Garden, London’s jewellery quarter and centre of the UK diamond trade. In the 1920s Eleanor Hibbert worked for a jeweller in Hatton Garden, where she weighed gems and typed.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Hatton.garden.london.ringshop.arp4857.jpg")
![In the early 1970s Eleanor Hibbert bought a historic house in Sandwich, Kent and named it King's Lodging.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Strand_Street,_King's_Lodging_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7036834857.jpg")
Eleanor Hibbert (1 September 1906 – 19 January 1993) was an English author who combined imagination with facts to bring history alive through novels of fiction and romance. 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. A literary split personality, she also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.