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Shadowed Love
Barbara fears she's fallen in love with the elegant Englishman who ordered the Scottish rebel she had loved to be hanged.
208 pages, Paperback
First published March 16, 1970
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About the author
Paula Allardyce
36 books5 followersUrsula Torday
aka Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, Charlotte Keppel
Ursula Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (some sources say her birth was in 1888 or 1914) in London, England, UK, daughter of mixed parents, her mother was Scottish and her father was Hungarian. 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 afterwards, she was 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 the USA), to sign her gothic romance and mystery 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 in 1997.
Her book "The Briar Patch" about the romance between a young woman and a survivor of concentration camps written under her pseudonym of Charity Blackstock was to have been made into a film in the 1960s directed by Irwin Kershner and starring George Chakiris and Tuesday Weld but it never came into production.
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aka Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, Charlotte Keppel
Ursula Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (some sources say her birth was in 1888 or 1914) in London, England, UK, daughter of mixed parents, her mother was Scottish and her father was Hungarian. 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 afterwards, she was 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 the USA), to sign her gothic romance and mystery 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 in 1997.
Her book "The Briar Patch" about the romance between a young woman and a survivor of concentration camps written under her pseudonym of Charity Blackstock was to have been made into a film in the 1960s directed by Irwin Kershner and starring George Chakiris and Tuesday Weld but it never came into production.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_T...
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September 24, 2017
To say to you that Shadowed Love was rough is an understatement. It was an angry story with moments bordering on depressing. Various characters spewed hatred, stumbled in an alcohol-infused fog or were simply killed. Solving the mystery of The Ghost of Archie Gilroy -the original title of this story- is the settling event.
Gilroy, a Scotsman, was branded a traitor by his countrymen. When he returned for the last time to his sweetheart, Barbara Balwhidder, an unknown person revealed his whereabouts. He was caught and hung.
Two years later, Barbara is engaged to an angry schoolteacher but still in love with Archie's ghost. Then the Englishman, James Hamlin, came to visit his older sister and he starts to investigate. The question at this point was 'Why?'.
Someone was on a mission to stop him from solving this historical who-done-it. Hamlin was confronted by a deadly cocktail of covetousness, jealousy and treachery that threatened to destroy both him and others.
This was the fifth historical romance I have read by Paula Allardyce aka Ursula Torday. I enjoyed The Rebel Lover and Octavia but I cannot recommend this fuming diatribe. From the get-go, there was abusive name-calling and it threw a damper on any romantic element.
The main protagonists ran hot and cold. I cared for neither of them. The few bursts of love were unbelievable. I kept hoping this Georgian-era fiction would improve but it didn't.
So why two stars instead of one? Because Ms. Allardyce kept me engaged. I assumed I knew who was the real traitor and I was right and wrong.
The author has written better.
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On a secondary note, most of Ms. Torday's books are ridiculously expensive no matter what pseudonym she is using. Instead, go to openlibrary.org, a free website, and enter the name, Charity Blackstock under 'author'. For some reason all of her stories are listed under that one name. There aren't a lot but you might find one that interests you. *Just remember that many of her stories had an original title and were reissued with another.*
Gilroy, a Scotsman, was branded a traitor by his countrymen. When he returned for the last time to his sweetheart, Barbara Balwhidder, an unknown person revealed his whereabouts. He was caught and hung.
Two years later, Barbara is engaged to an angry schoolteacher but still in love with Archie's ghost. Then the Englishman, James Hamlin, came to visit his older sister and he starts to investigate. The question at this point was 'Why?'.
Someone was on a mission to stop him from solving this historical who-done-it. Hamlin was confronted by a deadly cocktail of covetousness, jealousy and treachery that threatened to destroy both him and others.
This was the fifth historical romance I have read by Paula Allardyce aka Ursula Torday. I enjoyed The Rebel Lover and Octavia but I cannot recommend this fuming diatribe. From the get-go, there was abusive name-calling and it threw a damper on any romantic element.
The main protagonists ran hot and cold. I cared for neither of them. The few bursts of love were unbelievable. I kept hoping this Georgian-era fiction would improve but it didn't.
So why two stars instead of one? Because Ms. Allardyce kept me engaged. I assumed I knew who was the real traitor and I was right and wrong.
The author has written better.
~~~~~
On a secondary note, most of Ms. Torday's books are ridiculously expensive no matter what pseudonym she is using. Instead, go to openlibrary.org, a free website, and enter the name, Charity Blackstock under 'author'. For some reason all of her stories are listed under that one name. There aren't a lot but you might find one that interests you. *Just remember that many of her stories had an original title and were reissued with another.*
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May 30, 2023Summer Try-A-Chapter DNF.
August 21, 2012
I read the original published as Ghost of Archie Gilroy.
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