Agatha Christie : an elusive woman / Lucy Worsley.
"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.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-397) and index. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
Available copies
- 17 of 22 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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- 1 current hold with 22 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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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)
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Elizabeth Geyer Named Endowment, 2022
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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)
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Plated 2022: In Memory of Edna Durst McIndoe
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34007002475957 | Adult Area | Available | - |