Victoria Holt

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born

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

died

January 18, 1993

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female

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Romance

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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...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 29,827 ratings · 1,163 reviews · 55 distinct works

	Mistress of Mellyn 3.77 avg rating — 2,315 ratings — published 1960 — 26 editions	My rating:
	On the Night of the Seventh Moon 3.87 avg rating — 1,529 ratings — published 1972 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Pride of the Peacock 3.72 avg rating — 1,332 ratings — published 1976 — 17 editions	My rating:
	The India Fan 3.74 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Bride of Pendorric 3.68 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 1963 — 22 editions	My rating:
	The Shivering Sands 3.74 avg rating — 1,183 ratings — published 1969 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Black Opal 3.68 avg rating — 1,155 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	My rating:
	The House of a Thousand Lanterns 3.69 avg rating — 1,117 ratings — published 1974 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Time of the Hunter's Moon 3.72 avg rating — 1,044 ratings — published 1983 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Menfreya in Morning 3.74 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — 20 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Victoria Holt

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

tags: experience , never-regret

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“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

10 people liked it

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Mary Stewart

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2 votes, 9.1%

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