Ursula Torday
| Ursula Joyce Torday | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ursula Joyce Torday 19 February 1912 London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | March 6, 1997 (aged 85) |
| Pen name | Ursula Torday, Paula Allardyce, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, Charlotte Keppel |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 1935–1982 |
| Genre | Gothic, romance, mystery |
| Notable works | Witches' Sabbath |
| Notable awards | RoNA Award |
| Relatives | Emil Torday (father) |
Ursula Torday /ˈtɔːrˌdeɪ/ (19 February 1912 in London, England – 6 March 1997), was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce /ˈælərˌdaɪs/, Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, and Charlotte Keppel. In 1961, her novel Witches' Sabbath won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association
Ursula Joyce Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (in some sources wrongly 1888) in London, England, United Kingdom, daughter of mixed parentage, her mother Gaia Rose Macdonald, was Scottish, and her father Emil Torday (1875–1931) was a Hungarian anthropologist, they married on 17 March 1910.
She studied at Kensington High School in London, before she 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 the 1930s, she published her first three novels under her real name: Ursula Torday.
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