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Ursula Bloom

1974

Cat no. 5292

BBC documentary profiling the life and work of writer Ursula Bloom.

Author Ursula Bloom sits at her writing desk tapping away on a typewriter, opening this profile of her life and career with old photographs and newly filmed material. Beginning with her extensive bibliography, which ranges from romance novels to biographies, the report highlights her many non-de-plumes, including Mary Essex, Sheila Burns and Lozania Prole, and her prolific output, often averaging 5,000 words a day and easily able to complete a novel within three weeks. The daughter of a parson who didn't believe in school-based education, Bloom got an early start on her career, running a children's magazine at age 10, and had a brief career as a cinema pianist before marrying a wealthy barrister and guards officer. Following his death during the influenza epidemic of 1918, Bloom and her young son continued living in the exclusive seaside resort of Frinton, the summer playground of the rich and famous during the 1920s. During this time she broke into journalism with a successful career as a court reporter, before meeting her second husband, naval lieutenant Charles Robinson Gower, in 1925. Fifty years later, the couple are shown in their sitting room, still happily married, both claiming it was the 'best thing they ever did'.

Featured Buildings

St Mary's Parish Church, Frinton-on-Sea

Keywords

Journalism; Literature; Writers

Other Places

Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk; Frinton-on-Sea, Essex

Manifestations

Ursula Bloom

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