It starts off with a poignant quote from her autobiography (1981, p. The British Museum has an online tour we highly recommend you take if you want to learn more (and see more great photos). Many fans will know that she was married to Max Mallowan, an archaeologist-but few may have realized how involved in the archaeology Christie really was (though we wouldn’t necessarily call it a secret). Reproduced in accordance with the standard terms of use from the British Museum.Īgatha Christie (1890-1976) is best remembered for her prolific career as an author of scintillating murder mysteries, written with a flair for adventure. During the war, she also wrote Curtains and Sleeping Murder, intended as the last novels for Poirot and Miss Marple, but the manuscripts were sealed away until the end of her life.Agatha Christie with her shooting stick at the site of Chagar Bazar (1935-37). As it turned out, she had simply been stuck nearby on a train and, in frustration, gave the place’s name to an unlikeable character. Her 1941 novel N or M? briefly placed Christie under suspicion from MI5 because she named a character Major Bletchley, the same name as a top-secret codebreaking operation’s location.

As a matter of fact, her pharmacy work ended up benefitting her writing, as she learned more about chemical compounds and poisons that she was able to use in her novels. The breakout of World War II did not stop Christie from writing, although she split her time working at a pharmacy at University College Hospital in London.

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977).

Agatha, like her sister, was born in Torquay, ten years after her brother. Their oldest child, a daughter named Madge (short for Margaret) was born in 1879, and their son, Louis (who went by “Monty”), was born in Morristown, New Jersey, during an 1880 visit to the United States. They settled in Torquay, Devon, and had two children before Agatha. Miller was the American-born son of a dry goods merchant whose second wife, Margaret, was Boehmer’s aunt. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”Īgatha Christie was the youngest of three children born to Frederick Alvah Miller and his wife, Clara Boehmer, a well-off upper-middle-class couple.

Selected Works: Partners in Crime (1929), Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), And Then There Were None (1939), The Mousetrap (1952).

Children: Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Christie.Died: January 12, 1976 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England.Parents: Frederick Alvah Miller and Clarissa (Clara) Margaret Boehmer.

Also Known As: Lady Mallowan, Mary Westmacott.

Full Name: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie Mallowan.

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