Eleanor Alice Burford. Also known as Eleanor Hibbert, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr, and Jean Plaidy. (September 1 1906 - January 8 1993)
Author Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who sometimes wrote under the name "The Duchess," observed in her novel "Molly Bawn" that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." The phrase has passed into the English language.
