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It was at the Ur site, in 1930, that he first met Agatha Christie, the famous author, whom he married the same year. [7] In 1932, he spent a brief time working at Nineveh with Reginald Campbell Thompson , where he made a 21 metre-deep shaft down to natural level in the Kuyunjiq tell .
Aug 15, 2024 · Mallowan married the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie (later Dame Agatha) in 1930. One year after her death in 1976, he married the archaeologist Barbara Parker. Mallowan’s publications include Early Mesopotamia and Iran (1965), Nimrud and Its Remains, 3 vol. (1966), and Elamite Problems (1969).
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Born in September 1890, Agatha was cherished by her parents, American stockbroker Frederick Miller and Dublin born Clara Boehmer, who he married in London in 1878. Wealthy Frederick, born in New York, travelled all over the world after leaving boarding school in Switzerland. He eventually settled in Timperley, Cheshire. In 1881, the couple bought a...
Christie had a lively social life, attending parties and dances in country houses. She met barrister’s son Archibald “Archie” Christie in October 1912, at a dance hosted by Lord and Lady Clifford at Ugbrooke House in Devon. The dashing military officer, of the Royal Flying Corps, was 23 at the time and Christie was 22. They quickly fell in love and...
Just when life seemed idyllic, fate struck Christie a cruel blow when her beloved mother died in April 1926. They had been extremely close and the bereavement sent her spiralling into depression. Newspaper reports, in August 1926, claimed the author had suffered a breakdown and was recuperating in France. Later that month, Archie asked his wife for...
When Agatha Christie met Max Mallowan, a prominent British archaeologist 14 years her junior, in February 1930, little did she know it would result in a whirlwind romance and marriage just seven months later! After the trauma of her divorce, she left England for a trip on the famous Orient Express railroad to Istanbul and Baghdad. She met British a...
In 1938, the couple purchased Greenway Estate, located by the River Dart, near Galmpton, in Devon, as a summer residence. The couple adored Greenway, living there in the spring and summer and usually at Christmas. Family and friends were often invited over to stay. The historic house became the inspiration for the settings of some of her novels. Gr...
Christie became known for the longest running play in the world, The Mousetrap, which was performed continually in London’s West End between 1952 and 2020. It was forced to close, sadly, in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, after more than 27,500 performances, or it would probably still be running today. In 1955, she won the Mystery Write...
Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.
Apr 26, 2021 · The female partner in this relationship, Dame Agatha Christie, Britain’s bestselling author since Shakespeare requires little introduction. Her husband, the late Sir Max Mallowan, an eminent archaeologist who excavated several important sites in the Middle.
Feb 10, 2022 · Christie accompanied her second husband, Max Mallowan, on digs in Egypt and Syria. During these expeditions, she helped catalog, illustrate and restore artifacts, in addition to managing...
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Mar 21, 2019 · After a devastating divorce, the crime novelist took a trip to Baghdad in 1928 and lost her heart—to the ancient sites of Iraq and archaeologist Max Mallowan.
