She was encouraged to write by a family friend, a well-known author of the time - Marie Corelli.īorn into the fringes of middle class, with aspirations of grandeur but little money, Ursula became a master of story-telling in her own life - keeping up appearances with an imaginary housemaid because "it would have been a social stigma to do our own work" and pretending to her first husband that she could control the servants and not they her - writing was both an outlet and easy with someone of her imagination and humour. Her work was predominantly romantic, although her first book, Tiger, privately printed, was written when she was seven years old.
She wrote many of her novels under pseudonyms - Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole and Sara Sloane. Ursula published over 500 books in her lifetime, an achievement that once won her recognition in the Guinness Book of Records. She went on to write books about his work into their family history. Ursula was born in Essex, but as a child lived in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, where her father, James Harvey Bloom, was the Rector of the village. She was encouraged to write by a family friend, a well-known author of aka Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole Aka Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole Ursula was born in Essex, but as a child lived in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, where her father, James Harvey Bloom, was the Rector of the village.
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