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Jean Plaidy

Born

in Kensington, London, The United Kingdom

September 01, 1906

Died

January 18, 1993

Genre

Historical Fiction, History

Influences

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

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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 identities.
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Average rating: 3.88 · 94,422 ratings · 4,745 reviews · 186 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England #4) 3.97 avg rating — 4,539 ratings — published 1986 — 42 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
	Murder Most Royal (Tudor Saga, #5) by Jean Plaidy, Eleanor Hibbert (Also Known As) 4.01 avg rating — 4,057 ratings — published 1949 — 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
	To Hold the Crown (Tudor Saga #1) 3.71 avg rating — 3,918 ratings — published 1982 — 41 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
	Katharine of Aragon: The Wives of Henry VIII (Tudor Saga, #2-4) 4.05 avg rating — 3,221 ratings — published 1962 — 18 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 Rose Without a Thorn (Queens of England, #11) 3.87 avg rating — 3,195 ratings — published 1993 — 37 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
	Mary, Queen of France (Tudor Saga, #9) 3.83 avg rating — 3,123 ratings — published 1964 — 23 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 Sixth Wife (Tudor Saga, #7) 3.94 avg rating — 2,828 ratings — published 1953 — 54 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 Thistle and the Rose (Tudor Saga, #8) 3.78 avg rating — 2,796 ratings — published 1963 — 35 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
	Madame Serpent (Catherine de Medici, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 2,255 ratings — published 1952 — 38 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 Courts of Love (Queens of England, #5) 3.94 avg rating — 1,886 ratings — published 1987 — 17 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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Series by Jean Plaidy

Tudor Saga (11 books)
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Queens of England (11 books)
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Plantagenet Saga (14 books)
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“How stupid lovers can be! But if they were not, there would be no story.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Courts of Love

tags: love, stupidity

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“I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.”
― Jean Plaidy, Victoria Victorious: The Story of Queen Victoria

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“Is is said that those who study the ways of ambition learn patience.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Sixth Wife

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Polls

What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for us to have as our Group Read in September 2017?

The Lady in the Tower by Jean Plaidy

14 votes, 19.2%

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford by Julia Fox

9 votes, 12.3%

The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman

9 votes, 12.3%

The Raven's Widow by Adrienne Dillard

6 votes, 8.2%

The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor: Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the Making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton

6 votes, 8.2%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

5 votes, 6.8%

The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson

4 votes, 5.5%

The Witchfinder's Well by Jonathan Posner

4 votes, 5.5%

Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen by Josephine Wilkinson

4 votes, 5.5%

Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant by Tracy Borman

3 votes, 4.1%

The Colours of Our Petals by Aled Davies

2 votes, 2.7%

John Dudley: The Life of Lady Jane Grey's Father-in-Law by Christine Hartweg

2 votes, 2.7%

Queen of This Realm by Jean Plaidy

1 vote, 1.4%

Houses of Power: The Places That Shaped The Tudor World by Simon Thurley

1 vote, 1.4%

Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey

1 vote, 1.4%

Praise of Folly by Erasmus

1 vote, 1.4%

The Last Armada - Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O`Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion by Des Ekin

1 vote, 1.4%

My Lady Viper by E. Knight

0 votes, 0.0%

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Brigden

0 votes, 0.0%

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