Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman
Worsley, Lucy2022
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'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.' Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? 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 which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling 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 realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Main title:
Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman / Lucy Worsley.
Author:
Worsley, Lucy, author
Imprint:
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface: Hiding in plain sightPart one: Victorian girl - 1890s / 1. The house where I was born2. Insanity in the family3. The thing in the house4. RuinedPart two: Edwardian debutante - 1900s / 5. Waiting for the man6. Best Victorian lavatory7. The Gezireh Palace Hotel8. Enter ArchibaldPart three: Wartime nurse - 1914-18 / 9. Torquay Town Hall10. Love and death11. Enter Poirot12. The Moorland HotelPart four: Bright young author - 1920s / 13. Enter London14. Enter Rosalind15. The British mission16. ThrillersPart five - 1926 / 17. Sunningdale18. The mysterious affair at Styles19. Disappearance20. The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel21. ReappearancePart six: Plutocratic period - 1930s / 22. Mesopotamia23. Enter Max24. I think I will marry you25. Eight houses26. The golden agePart seven: Wartime worker - 1940s / 27. Beneath the bombs28. A daughter's daughter29. Life is rather complicated30. By Mary WestmacottPart eight: Taken at the flood - 1950s / 31. A big expensive dream32. They came to Baghdad33. Christie-land after the war34. Second row in the stalls35. A charming grandmotherPart nine: No swinging - 1960s / 36. The mystery of the Christie fortune37. A queer lot38. Lady detectives39. To know when to goPart ten: Curtain - 1970s / 40. Winterbrook41. The funeralSourcesAcknowledgementsNotesIndexPicture acknowledgements.
ISBN:
9781529303889978152930388997815293038899781529303889978152930388997815293038899781529303889
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
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BRN:
518974
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