Victoria Holt

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Victoria Holt


Born
in Kensington, London, England, The United Kingdom
September 01, 1906

Died
January 18, 1993

Genre

Influences


Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs. George Percival Hibbert was a British author of about 200 historical novels, most of them under the pen name Jean Plaidy which had sold 14 million copies by the time of her death. She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books; the best-known, apart from Plaidy, are Victoria Holt (56 million) and Philippa Carr (3 million). Lesser known were the novels Hibbert published under her maiden name Eleanor Burford, or the pseudonyms of Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow and Ellalice Tate. Many of her readers under one penname never suspected her other identit
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The India Fan

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The Pride of the Peacock

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Menfreya in the Morning

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The Black Opal

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“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
Victoria Holt

“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”
Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.”
Victoria Holt, Mistress of Mellyn

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When you were a teenager what writer did you read most often?

I read many authors, both then and now, so I don't know (write-in)
 
  20 votes, 23.8%

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  8 votes, 9.5%

 
  7 votes, 8.3%

 
  6 votes, 7.1%

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  3 votes, 3.6%

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  2 votes, 2.4%

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  2 votes, 2.4%

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  2 votes, 2.4%

Victoria Holt and Ian Fleming
 
  2 votes, 2.4%

Mary Stewart
 
  2 votes, 2.4%

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