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‡aB CHRISTIE |
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‡aWorsley, Lucy,
‡eauthor. |
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‡aAgatha Christie :
‡ban elusive woman /
‡cLucy Worsley. |
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‡aFirst Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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‡aNew York, NY :
‡bPegasus Crime,
‡c2022. |
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‡axvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
‡billustrations, genealogical table ;
‡c24 cm |
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‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 357-363, 367-397) and index. |
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‡tPreface: Hiding in plain sight --
‡tPart one: Victorian girl, 1890s. The house where I was born ;
‡tInsanity in the family ;
‡tThe thing in the house ;
‡tRuined --
‡tPart two: Edwardian debutante, 1900s. Waiting for the man ;
‡tBest Victorian lavatory ;
‡tThe Gezireh Palace Hotel ;
‡tEnter Archibald --
‡tPart three: Wartime nurse, 1914-18. Torquay Town Hall ;
‡tLove and death ;
‡tEnter Poirot ;
‡tThe Moorland Hotel --
‡tPart four: Bright young author, 1920s. Enter London ;
‡tEnter Rosalind ;
‡tThe British Mission ;
‡tThrillers --
‡tPart five: 1926. Sunningdale ;
‡tThe Mysterious Affair at Styles ;
‡tDisappearance ;
‡tThe Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel ;
‡tReappearance --
‡tPart six: Plutocratic period, 1930s. Mesopotamia ;
‡tEnter Max ;
‡tI think I will marry you ;
‡tEight houses ;
‡tThe golden age --
‡tPart seven: Wartime worker, 1940s. Beneath the bombs ;
‡tA daughter's a daughter ;
‡tLife is rather complicated ;
‡tBy Mary Westmacott --
‡tPart eight: Taken at the flood, 1950s. A big expensive dream ;
‡tThey came to Baghdad ;
‡tChristie-land after the war ;
‡tSecond row in the stalls ;
‡tA charming grandmother --
‡tPart nine: Not swinging, 1960s. The mystery of the Christie fortune ;
‡tA queer lot ;
‡tLady detectives ;
‡tTo know when to go --
‡tPart ten: Curtain, 1970s. Winterbrook ;
‡tAfter the funeral. |
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‡a"Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was "just" an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? Her life is fascinating for its mysteries and its passions and, as Lucy Worsley says, "She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern." She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the contrary--did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world that had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of a massively, internationally successful writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realize what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was--truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century"--Dust jacket flap. |
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‡aChristie, Agatha,
‡d1890-1976. |
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