Kay Mussell

Standard Name: Mussell, Kay

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Literary responses	Jean Plaidy	Reviewers greeted this novel with praise, drawing parallels with Brontë 's Jane Eyre and Du Maurier 's Rebecca. Alex Stuart in John O' London's noted its utterly compulsive, drug-like, addictive quality. Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert: "Queen of Romantic Suspense". http://members.tripod.com/jeanplaidy/index.htm. Twenty years...
Literary responses	Jean Plaidy	The novels she published under her three most successful pseudonyms, Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt, and Philippa Carr, garnered her a loyal audience, particularly among library-users. These novels were often borrowed over 300,000 times a year...
Textual Features	Jean Plaidy	Unlike Jean Plaidy novels, Victoria Holt novels centre around entirely fictional characters. Bennett, Catherine. “The Prime of Miss Jean Plaidy”. The Guardian, 4 July 1991, pp. 23-4. 23 These novels tend to follow one of three available plot lines. There is the conspiring husband plot, whose heroine suspects her husband...

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Mussell, Kay. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Editors Vinson, James and Daniel Lane Kirkpatrick, Macmillan, 1982.

Mussell, Kay. Women’s Gothic and Romantic Fiction: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press, 1981.