Editing Eleanor Alice Burford (section)

=== Literary agents and publishers ===
Eleanor Hibbert enjoyed healthy, lifelong relationships with her literary agents and publishers, a rare feat in the publishing world.<ref name="hibbert_ind"/> She was represented in the United Kingdom by A.M. Heath Literary Agency and by [[McIntosh & Otis]] in the United States. Her long-time American agent was [[Patricia Schartle Myrer]] followed by Julie Fallowfield.

London publisher [[Barrie & Jenkins|Herbert Jenkins]] published 20 light romantic novels from 1941 to 1955 that Hibbert wrote under the pen name ''Eleanor Burford''. The contract, initially for one book a year at an advance of £30 a title, was later revised to two books a year when the books proved successful.<ref name="hibbert_dalby"/>

[[Mills and Boon]], a London publisher that specialised in low-priced, paperback, romantic novels brought out 10 romance novels from 1956 to 1962 that Hibbert wrote under the pen name ''Eleanor Burford''.

Gerald G Swan published the first ''Jean Plaidy'' book in 1945 but every one after that was published by Robert Hale. Starting with ''Beyond the Blue Mountains'' (1948) and extending over the entire course of her lifetime, Robert Hale published a total of 90 Jean Plaidy books in hardcover with dust jackets illustrated by specialist artist Philip Gough.<ref name="hibbert_dalby"/>

MacRae Smith Co. of Philadelphia published ''Jean Plaidy'' titles in the United States. Foreign language editions of ''Jean Plaidy'' books began appearing in 1956: in French by [[Éditions Robert Laffont]], [[Paris]]; in Spanish by Guillermo Kraft Limitada, [[Buenos Aires]]; and in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] by Uitgeverij A.J. Luitingh, [[Amsterdam]].

In 1951, Canadian paperback publishers [[Harlequin Enterprises|Harlequin]] reprinted ''Jean Plaidy'''s ''Beyond the Blue Mountains'' in paperback to achieve their greatest commercial success to that date: of the 30,000 copies sold, only 48 were returned.<ref name="hibbert_wirten">Hemmungs Wirten (1998), p. 63.</ref>

Robert Hale published eight ''Kathleen Kellow'' crime and mystery novels between 1952 and 1960 in hardcover with dust jackets by Philip Gough. Robert Hale also published the sole book written under the ''Anna Percival'' pseudonym, ''The Brides of Lanlory''.<ref name="hibbert_dalby"/>

From 1950 to 1953, four ''Elbur Ford'' crime novels were published by London publisher [[William Morrow and Company|William Morrow]] in the United Kingdom and New York publisher [[Thomas Werner Laurie|Werner Laurie]] in the United States.

From 1956 to 1961, [[Hodder & Stoughton]] published all five historical novels written under the pseudonym ''Ellalice Tate''.<ref name="hibbert_dalby"/>

From 1960 to 1993, Hibbert wrote 32 ''Victoria Holt'' novels for the publishing giants [[William Collins, Sons|Collins]] in the United Kingdom and [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] in the United States. Many of them were bestsellers and were translated into 20 languages to reach a worldwide audience.

From 1972 to 1993, Hibbert wrote 19 ''Philippa Carr'' novels that were published by [[William Collins, Sons|Collins]] in the United Kingdom and [[G. P. Putnam's Sons|Putnam]] in the United States. A few of them were later translated into foreign languages such as [[Spanish (language)|Spanish]], [[Finnish (language)|Finnish]], [[Russian (language)|Russian]] and [[Polish (language)|Polish]].

By the time of her death in 1993, Hibbert had sold 75 million books translated in 20 languages under the name ''Victoria Holt'', 14 million under the name ''Jean Plaidy'' and 3 million under the name ''Philippa Carr''.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="hibbert_goodreads">{{cite web | title= Eleanor Alice Burford | url= https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/32.Philippa_Carr |publisher= GoodReads |access-date=18 April 2014 }}</ref>

After her death, Mark Hamilton of the A.M. Heath Literary Agency took over as executor for her literary estate, estimated to be worth about £8,790,807 at probate.<ref name="hibbert_oup"/><ref name="hibbert_hamilton">{{cite book | title= Front Matter of the novel 'The Rose Without a Thorn' | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JX9iipKI-3EC&pg=PT328 |first=Jean |last=Plaidy|publisher=Three Rivers Press | date=17 February 2010|isbn = 9780307497611|access-date=18 April 2014}}</ref>