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Eleanor Hibbert

1906 - 1993

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Eleanor Alice Hibbert (née Burford; 1 September 1906 – 18 January 1993) was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eleanor Hibbert has received more than 312,819 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Eleanor Hibbert is the 3,342nd most popular writer (down from 3,157th in 2019), the 2,473rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,353rd in 2019) and the 285th most popular British Writer.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 3,342 out of 5,755. Before her are Shibli Nomani, Ida Fink, Sima Tan, Concepción Arenal, Jeton Kelmendi, and William Hope Hodgson. After her are Thor Vilhjálmsson, Giosafat Barbaro, Edith Durham, Gʻafur Gʻulom, Sergio Ramírez, and Viktor Rydberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 177. Before her are Renate Müller, R. K. Narayan, Dmitry Likhachov, Tribhuvan of Nepal, Agniya Barto, and Flávio Costa. After her are John D. Rockefeller III, Buddhadasa, Nazim al-Qudsi, František Svoboda, Eraldo Monzeglio, and Marian Spychalski. Among people deceased in 1993, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 121. Before her are Cyril Cusack, Leo Löwenthal, Valentina Grizodubova, Reuben Fine, David Koresh, and Edward Bernard Raczyński. After her are Buddhadasa, Yuri Bezmenov, Guido Masetti, Mick Ronson, Wilhelm Gliese, and Clarence Zener.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 2,473 out of 7,765. Before her are Richard Johnson (1927), Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1901), Graham McTavish (1961), Roger Williams (1603), Peter Gethin (1940), and William Hope Hodgson (1877). After her are Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), John Soane (1753), Mary McAleese (1951), Edith Durham (1863), John Mahoney (1940), and John Walker (1781).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Eleanor Hibbert ranks 285. Before her are Peter Cheyney (1896), William Langland (1332), Nancy Mitford (1904), William Cowper (1731), Alexander Neckam (1157), and William Hope Hodgson (1877). After her are Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), Edith Durham (1863), Robert Chambers (1802), Eric Ambler (1909), David Crystal (1941), and Penelope Fitzgerald (1916).

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