Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Miracle at St. Bruno’s | 1972 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 2 | The Lion Triumphant | 1973 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 3 | The Witch from the Sea | 1975 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 4 | Saraband for Two Sisters | 1976 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 5 | Lament for a Lost Lover | 1977 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 6 | The Love Child | 1978 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 7 | The Song of the Siren | 1980 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 8 | Will You Love Me in September | 1981 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 9 | The Adulteress | 1982 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 10 | Knave of Hearts / Zipporah’s Daughter | 1983 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 11 | Voices in a Haunted Room | 1984 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 12 | The Return of the Gypsy | 1985 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 13 | Midsummer’s Eve | 1986 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 14 | The Pool of St. Branok | 1987 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 15 | The Changeling | 1989 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 16 | The Black Swan | 1990 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 17 | A Time for Silence | 1991 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 18 | The Gossamer Cord | 1992 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 19 | We’ll Meet Again | 1993 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 20 | Daughters of England | 1995 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
The Daughters of England series by Eleanor Burford Hibbert, writing as Philippa Carr, is a twenty-book family saga that follows the women of one English family from the time of the Reformation through the twentieth century. Each novel is narrated by a different woman in the family line, so the series reads as a chain of connected stories rather than one continuous narrative. The first book, The Miracle at St. Bruno’s, is set during the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
As the series progresses, the family’s women live through the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Jacobite risings, the Napoleonic Wars, the Victorian era, and both World Wars. Titles like Lament for a Lost Lover and The Witch from the Sea blend personal romance and family drama with the political events of their time periods. Each heroine has her own distinct voice and set of problems, though threads of family history and inherited traits carry through from one generation to the next.
The final book, Daughters of England, was published in 1995, two years after Hibbert’s death, and brings the saga to its conclusion. Readers who enjoy this family-spanning approach may also appreciate Hibbert’s Jean Plaidy novels, which cover many of the same historical periods from the perspective of real queens and kings. The Tudor Saga, Stuart Saga, and Georgian Saga all overlap with time periods explored in the Daughters of England series.