Charity Blackstock (1912–1997)
Autor(a) de Dewey Death
About the Author
Image credit: Ursula Torday about 1965.
Obras de Charity Blackstock
Een Heks Met Blauwe Ogen 1 exemplar(es)
Liefde is een vurig paard 1 exemplar(es)
Witches Sabbath 1 exemplar(es)
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Torday, Ursula Joyce
- Outros nomes
- Torday, Ursula
Allardyce, Paula (pseudonym)
Blackstock, Charity (pseudonym)
Blackstock, Lee (pseudonym)
Keppel, Charlotte (pseudonym) - Data de nascimento
- 1912-02-19
- Data de falecimento
- 1997-03-06
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Kensington, London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall|BA|English)
London School of Economics - Ocupação
- office worker
typist
novelist
romance novelist
crime novelist - Relacionamentos
- Torday, Emil (father)
- Pequena biografia
- Ursula Joyce Torday (19 February 1912 - 6 March 1997) was born in London, England, UK, the daughter of a Scottish mother (Gaia Rose Macdonald) and a Hungarian father (anthropologist Emil Torday, 1875-1931). She received a BA in English from Lady Margaret Hall College (Oxford University) and a Social Science Certificate from the London School of Economics.
In 1930s, she published her first three novels under her real name, Ursula Torday. During World War II she worked as a probation officer for the Citizen's Advice Bureau. After the war she spent seven years working at the
Children’s Marrainage Scheme (a project of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad) assisting Jewish children refugees--inspiration for several novels published under the pseudonym Charity Blackstock: e.g. The Briar Patch (aka Young Lucifer, U.S. title) and The Children (aka Wednesday's Children, U.S.). Later she worked as a typist at the National Central Library in London, inspiration for her novel Dewey Death (also as Charity Blackstock). She also taught English to adult students.
When she returned to publishing in early 1950s she used the pseudonyms Paula Allardyce and Charity Blackstock (and in some cases reedited as Lee Blackstock in USA), to on her gothic romance and mystery novels; later she would also use the pseudonym Charlotte Keppel. Her novel Miss Fenny (aka The Woman in the Woods, U.S.) as Charity (or Lee) Blackstock, was nominated for the Edgar Award. In 1961, her novel Witches' Sabbath won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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Mid 20thC British novel: widow falls in love with a ghost em Name that Book (Novembro 2011)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 67
- Membros
- 385
- Popularidade
- #62,810
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 10
- ISBNs
- 91
- Idiomas
- 2
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This is what I would like to think of as Paula Allardyces personal views on the feminist movement in the 1960s/70s.
Its not a very romantic book either as the hero has a mistress ,Sophy whom he breaks up with in the beginning but then gets back together with after the first meeting between Mary Ann and Edward.
..and when I say get back together.I mean they have offpage sex.
Its admittedly not the best of her books but it does has some good moments, like the one near the end when the heroine and the heros aunt drinks wine inside a burning house.
/"Why my dear think we should sit down and have another glass of wine.You need not be afraid. I am certain my nephew will be along any moment now:if not,the neighbours will come to our rescue.The fire must be visible for miles.
There is also a bad guy named Cabbage Powers.… (mais)