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Agatha Christie : an elusive woman / Lucy Worsley.

Worsley, Lucy, (author.).

Summary:
"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."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781639362523
  • ISBN: 1639362525
  • Physical Description: xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index.
Subject: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.
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.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 17 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 22 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library 92 CHRISTI (Text) 50687011800557 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library B CHR (Text) 37268003148210 AHMFL Biography Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 823.912092 WOR (Text) 33240004724319 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Bangor Public Library B 92 CHR (Text) 75011000387933 Adult Biography Available -
Bernville Area Community Library CHR (Text) 33249023895257 Biography Available -
Cambria County Library 823.912 C555W (Text) 85131001847137 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
Coudersport Public Library B CHRISTIE (Text) 30183000965143 Adult Biography Checked Out 04/04/2024
Gettysburg Library BIOG CHRI-A (Text)
Endowment: Elizabeth Geyer Named Endowment, 2022
35740635878531 Biography Available -
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) 921 CHR (Text) 92525758 GFWM Main Room Available -
Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library Adults CHRISTIE Biography (Text)
Bookplate: Plated 2022: In Memory of Edna Durst McIndoe
34007002475957 Adult Area Available -

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