05170cam a2200625 i 4500 23655499 BJBSDDR 20251106135851.0 ta 240423s2023 nyuafj b 001 0beng d 2024440056 9781639365739 1639365737 23655499 (OCoLC)1292589964 YDX eng rda YDX GRC IH9 CLE OCLCF CGB IMT YAH YU6 CDX INR UAP MUU XII OCLCO OCLCL DLC eng lccopycat e-uk-en PR 6005 C555W 2023 Worsley, Lucy, 1973- 45492 Agatha Christie : an elusive woman / Lucy Worsley. First Pegasus Books paperback edition New York : Pegasus Crime, 2023. xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index. Preface : Hiding in plain sight -- Part one : Victorian girl, 1890s. The house where I was born -- Insanity in the family -- The thing in the house -- Ruined -- Part two : Edwardian debutante, 1900s. Waiting for the man -- Best Victorian lavatory -- The Gezireh Palace Hotel -- Enter Archibald -- Part three : Wartime nurse, 1914-18. Torquay Town Hall -- Love and death -- Enter Poirot -- The Moorland Hotel -- Part four : Bright young author, 1920s. Enter London -- Enter Rosalind -- The British Mission -- Thrillers -- Part five : 1926. Sunningdale -- The Mysterious Affair at Styles -- Disappearance -- The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel -- Reappearance -- Part six : Plutocratic period, 1930s. Mesopotamia -- Enter Max -- I think I will marry you -- Eight houses -- The golden age -- Part seven : Wartime worker, 1940s. Beneath the bombs -- A daughter's a daughter -- Life is rather complicated -- By Mary Westmacott -- Part eight : Taken at the flood, 1950s. A big expensive dream -- They came to Baghdad -- Christie-land after the war -- Second row in the stalls -- A charming grandmother -- Part nine : Not swinging, 1960s. The mystery of the Christie fortune -- A queer lot -- Lady detectives -- To know when to go -- Part ten : Curtain, 1970s. Winterbrook -- After the funeral. "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. Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 24265 Women novelists, English 20th century Biography. Novelists, English 20th century Biography. Detective and mystery stories, English History and criticism. Women and literature England History 20th century. Authors, English 20th century Biography. Women authors, English 20th century Biography. Novelistas inglesas Siglo XX Biografías 45812 Novela policíaca inglesa Historia y crítica 45813 Mujeres y literatura Historia 40355 Inglaterra Autoras inglesas Biografías 44292 Romancières anglaises 20e siècle Biographies. Romanciers anglais 20e siècle Biographies. Femmes et littérature Angleterre Histoire 20e siècle. Écrivains anglais 20e siècle Biographies. Écrivaines anglaises 20e siècle Biographies. has work: AGATHA CHRISTIE (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCXJVtkvcYfVbdVtd8XRhBK https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Online version: Worsley, Lucy. Agatha Christie. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022 9781639362530 (OCoLC)1343250159 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK rmza 125629 125629 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-10-27 0 PR 6005 C555W 2023 00000183731 2025-10-27 19:56:00 1 2025-10-27 BK