Eleanor Burford / Hibbert

About Eleanor Hibbert Eleanor Alice Hibbert, a talented English writer, is best known for her historical romances. She published numerous books each year, spanning various genres, always using a different pen name. Her best-known aliases include Jean Plaidy for European royalty fictional histories and accounts of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for family sagas across generations.

The best place to start is the Tudor Saga series, the earliest of Eleanor Burford / Hibbert's multi-book series: it opens with Murder Most Royal / King's Pleasure (1949) and runs to 11 books across 1949–1982, ending with Uneasy Lies the Head / To Hold the Crown (1982). Eleanor Burford / Hibbert's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Eleanor Burford / Hibbert has 196 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1940 and 1995. 104 of them belong to 15 named series — the largest being the Daughters Of England series with 20 books — and 92 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Eleanor Burford / Hibbert's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Tudor Saga (1949–1982, 11 books), Catherine De Medici (1952–1958, 3 books) and A Novel of the Stuarts (1955–1972, 7 books), plus 12 more.

This guide splits Eleanor Burford / Hibbert's 196 books into 15 named series and 92 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Daughters Of England (20 books, 1972–1995); Plantagenet Saga (14 books, 1976–1982); Georgian Saga (11 books, 1967–1972); Queens Of England (11 books, 1983–1993); Tudor Saga (11 books, 1949–1982), plus 10 further series.