Plantagenet Saga & more by Jean Plaidy ~ 38 MP3 AUDIOBOOK COLLECTION

Jean PlaidyEleanor Hibbert (1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was a British author who wrote under various pen names. Her best-known pseudonyms were Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr; she also wrote under the names Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate. By the time of her death, she had sold more than 100 million books. Hibbert was born Eleanor Alice Burford on 1 September 1906 in Canning Town, in what is now the London borough of Newham. She inherited a love of reading from her father, Joseph Burford, a dock labourer. She was captivated by the city of her birth. "I consider myself extremely lucky to have been born and raised in London," she later wrote, "and to have had on my doorstep this most fascinating of cities, with so many relics of 2000 years of history still to be found in its streets. One of my greatest pleasures was, and still is, exploring London. Circumstances arose which brought my school life to an abrupt terminatio