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  1. www.agathachristie.com › stories › agatha-christieAgatha Christie : An Elusive Woman by Agatha Christie

    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'.

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      When Agatha Christie died on 12 January 1976, she was known...

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  3. www.goodreads.com › book › showAgatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman - Goodreads

    Sep 8, 2022 · A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley. "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?

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  4. www.nytimes.com › 2022/09/06 › booksAgatha Christie’s Latest Biographer Plumbs a Life of Mystery

    Sep 6, 2022 · In “Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman,” Lucy Worsley revisits the weird story of one of the 20th century’s most popular and enduring authors.

  5. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksAgatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman - The Irish Times

    Sep 21, 2022 · Worsley’s Agatha Christie may be elusive but she’s also primarily a woman. Christie’s five-decade career spanned a period of incredible societal change for British women.

  6. www.amazon.co.uk › Agatha-Christie-Very-ElusiveAgatha Christie: The Sunday Times Bestseller: Amazon.co.uk ...

    Agatha Christie was a modernist, an iconoclast, and a groundbreaker, according to this excellent biography from historian Worsley. Worsley offers close readings of Christie's work and presents a careful reframe of the novelist's famous 1926 disappearance.

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  7. showcase.newstatesman.com › culture › booksAgatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman review - New Statesman

    Sep 7, 2022 · Now comes a new work from the popular historian Lucy Worsley, titled Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman. “In this book, I’d like to explore why Agatha Christie spent her life pretending to be ordinary,” Worsley writes, in the teasing tone she has honed on television.

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    Sep 6, 2022 · Agatha Christie was elusive, Worsley argues, because she 'deliberately played upon the fact that she seemed so ordinary.' Worsley also shows how Christie took care to create narratives that put 'the lives of women centre stage' as well as how her personal experiences informed her work One of Christie’s gifts, writes Worsley, was to ...

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