via Eleanor Hibbert, Novelist Known As Victoria Holt and Jean Plaidy - NYTimes.com I cut my teeth on Victoria Holt's Gothic romance novels when I was about 12. They were the closest contemporary thing I could find to Jane Eyre, and they were -- and are -- wonderful, though I haven't picked one up in … Continue reading Eleanor Hibbert, Novelist Known As Victoria Holt and Jean Plaidy – NYTimes.com

  September 1, 2017 TODAY: In 1906, prolific author Eleanor Hibbert, who used different pen names depending on the genre (Jean Plaidy for historical fiction, Victoria Holt for gothic romance), is born.