The Resource Agatha Christie : an elusive woman, Lucy Worsley
Agatha Christie : an elusive woman, Lucy Worsley
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The item Agatha Christie : an elusive woman, Lucy Worsley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ipswich Public Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781639362523
- Label
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- Title
- Agatha Christie
- Title remainder
- an elusive woman
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy Worsley
- Subject
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- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
- Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
- Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Worsley, Lucy
- Dewey number
- 823.912092
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Christie, Agatha
- Women novelists, English
- Novelists, English
- Detective and mystery stories, English
- Women and literature
- Authors, English
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman, Lucy Worsley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1292589964
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781639362523
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1292589964
- Label
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman, Lucy Worsley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1292589964
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781639362523
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1292589964
Subject
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976
- Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism
- Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century
- Biographies
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