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Charlotte Keppel
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Ursula Joyce Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (some sources say his birth in 1888 or 1914) in London, England, UK, daughter of mixed parents, her mother, Gaia Rose Macdonald, was Scottish, and her father Emil Torday (1875-1931) was an Hungarian anthropologist, they married on 17 March 1910. She studied at Kensington High School in London, before went to the Oxford University, where she obtained a BA in English at Lady Margaret Hall College, and later a Social Science Certificate at London School of Economics.
In 1930s, she published her first three novels with her real name, Ursula Torday. During the World War II she worked as a probation officer for the Citizen's Advice Bureau, and during the next seven years afterwars, she also running a refugee scheme for Jewish children, inspiration for several of her future novels like, The Briar Patch (aka Young Lucifer) and The Children (aka Wednesday's Children) as Charity Blackstock. She worked as a typist at the National Central Library in London, inspiration for her future novel Dewey Death as Charity Blackstock. She also teaching English to adult students. She returned to publishing in early 1950s, using the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock (in some cases reedited as Lee Blackstock in USA), to sign her gothic romance and mistery novels, later she also used the pseudonym of Charlotte Keppel. Her novel Miss Fenny (aka The Woman in the Woods) as Charity or Lee Blackstock was nominated for Edgar Award. In 1961, her novel Witches' Sabbath won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She passed away 6 March 1997, at 85.
Book List in Order: 6 titles
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Madam, You Must Die // Loving Sands, Deadly Sands
- Dec-1974
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Original title: Madam, You Must Die. They had been lovers... but now they loathed each other with an intensity greater then the love they'd once known. Ten years ago the handsome Philippe had been willing to give up everything for Margaret Walters...
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When I Say Goodbye, I'm Clary Brown // My name is Clary Brown
- Jan-1976
- / Gothic
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Original title: When I Say Goodbye, I'm Clary Brown. An actress who has risen from humble beginnings returns to her home village to find many of her friends dead and a malevolence that seems to be directed at her. THE RIGHT TO LOVE… Mi...
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I Could Be Good to You
- 1980
- / Gothic
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A spellbinding novel of love and treachery in eiteenth-century London....
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The Villains
- 1980
- / Gothic
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A haunting tale of the marshes. Left penniless by their parents' death, Nanette and Leonie go to live with their frosty aunt at Cudden Hall, where they come face to face with secrets, danger, and high passion....
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