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Victoria Holt

Born

in Kensington, London, England, The United Kingdom

September 01, 1906

Died

January 18, 1993

Genre

Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

Influences

Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Émile Zo ...more

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 109,568 ratings · 5,792 reviews · 370 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mistress of Mellyn 3.92 avg rating — 9,998 ratings — published 1960 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shivering Sands 3.92 avg rating — 6,329 ratings — published 1969 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Night of the Seventh Moon 3.99 avg rating — 6,129 ratings — published 1972 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bride of Pendorric 3.88 avg rating — 5,013 ratings — published 1963 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pride of the Peacock 3.89 avg rating — 4,850 ratings — published 1976 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The India Fan 3.85 avg rating — 4,875 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time of the Hunter's Moon by Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, Jean Plaidy 3.84 avg rating — 4,053 ratings — published 1983 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Menfreya in the Morning 3.90 avg rating — 3,764 ratings — published 1966	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Black Opal 3.78 avg rating — 3,738 ratings — published 1993 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kirkland Revels 3.87 avg rating — 3,474 ratings — published 1962 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

tags: experience, never-regret

488 likes

“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

43 likes

“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?

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Victoria Holt

7 votes, 8.1%

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6 votes, 7.0%

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