02615cam a2200397 i 4500 1072350107 TxAuBib 20231211120000.0 220119s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781639362523 hardcover $29.95 1639362525 hardcover $29.95 (OCoLC)1292589964 TxAuBib rda Worsley, Lucy, author. Agatha Christie : an elusive woman / Lucy Worsley. First Pegasus Books cloth edition. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2022. xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-363, 367-397) and index. "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"--Dust jacket flap. 20231211. 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. Biography. fast Biographies.