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Miss Philadelphia Smith
Nothing had ever happened to Philadelphia until she made that wish one autumn evening. Her dreams came true that very night when she got more attention than she bargained for:
JAMIE, her handsome fiance, was tired of waiting to marry her. He was going to jilt Philadelphia that evening - or was she going to jilt him?
MR. ATHERTON, her rich and jaded neighbor, was enchanted by her fresh young beauty. The more he attempted to console the weeping, distraught Philadelphia, the more he wanted to seduce her.
FERDY, Mr. Atherton's gambling companiion, was the blackest sheep in the noblest of families. He had designs on Philadelphia - every one of them evil.
JAMIE, her handsome fiance, was tired of waiting to marry her. He was going to jilt Philadelphia that evening - or was she going to jilt him?
MR. ATHERTON, her rich and jaded neighbor, was enchanted by her fresh young beauty. The more he attempted to console the weeping, distraught Philadelphia, the more he wanted to seduce her.
FERDY, Mr. Atherton's gambling companiion, was the blackest sheep in the noblest of families. He had designs on Philadelphia - every one of them evil.
- GenresRomanceHistoricalFiction
320 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1977
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.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_T...
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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May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
I got this book when I was pretty young (my book was printed in 1977) and I got as far as chapter 7. I think it's time to reread this, lol!
I got this book when I was pretty young (my book was printed in 1977) and I got as far as chapter 7. I think it's time to reread this, lol!
July 24, 2013
what a horrible was ferdie huh? hated him he got wat he deserved. good book. loved it
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