Additionally, she worked as a verbal communication interpreter in a café for German as well as French speaking tourists. The knowledge she acquired enabled her to work in Hatton Garden as a jeweler where she evaluated gems and typed. Ideally, she went to a business college when she was at the age of 16 where she studied Shorthand typewriting along with languages. When Victoria Holt was young, her health strained her to be confidentially educated at home. Victoria inherited the love of reading and writing from her father, Joseph Burford, who was a dock laborer.

She used eight pen names during her career and many of her book lovers never suspected her other identities. It is evident that Victoria Holt published quite a lot of books a year in different fictional genres and was a creative writer. Both shared the love of reading the books. In her early twenties, she married George Percival Hibber wholesale leather merchant who was about 20-years older than herself and she was the 2nd wife. The fact of the matter is that Victoria Holt was one of the world’s most adored as well as enduring authors. She was one of the most excellent English authors who united imagination through facts to bring the past alive throughout novels of fiction as well as romance for most of the twentieth century. The Mask of the Enchantress (As: Philippa Carr)Įleanor Burford Hibbert, recognized to readers as Victoria Holt was born on (1st September 1906 – 19th January 1993) in Kensington, London, England. The House of a Thousand Lanterns (As: Philippa Carr) The Curse of the Kings (As: Philippa Carr) Menfreya in the Morning (As: Philippa Carr) Now That April's Gone (As:Eleanor Burford) This Was a Man / The King's Adventurer: Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (As: Ellalice Tate) The Brides of Lanlory (As: Anna Percival) It Began in Vauxhall Gardens (As:Jean Plaidy) It Began in Vauxhall Gardens / Melisande (As:Kathleen Kellow)

Two Loves in Her Life (As:Eleanor Burford) Oliver's (As:Kathleen Kellow)Įvil in the House / Such Bitter Business (As: Elbur Ford) The Goldsmith's Wife / The King's Mistress The House at Cupid's Cross (As:Eleanor Burford)

So the Dreams Depart (As:Eleanor Burford)īeyond the Blue Mountains (As:Jean Plaidy) When the Entire World is Young (As:Eleanor Burford)

The Shadow of the Lynx by Victoria Holt