Interview with Agatha

Interview with Agatha.

Here is an Interview with Agatha Christie on BBC radio, it is 2 and a half minutes long and I found it really helpful.
she is talking about her rise to fame, how she wrote her books, her childhood and so on.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/agatha_christie/12503.shtml

"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

She was the youngest of three children: brother Monty and sister Madge. Her father Frederick Alvah Miller was an American and her mother Clara Boehmer was English.
At the age of sixteen she was sent to Paris where she studied singing and piano. She considered becoming a professional opera singer but her voice was not strong enough. Also she considered becoming a concert pianist but her music master told her that she was too nervous to contemplate playing in public. Nevertheless she continued to play privately at Greenway House and elsewhere. After finishing school, Agatha spent three months in Egypt with her mother. When she returned to England in 1912 she met Colonel Lieutenant Archibald Christie and they married on Christmas Eve in 1914, at the beginning of the war. He went straight off to the war and Agatha worked in the dispensary of a Red cross hospital in Torquay. There she learned about chemicals and poisons, which proved very useful to her in her later careerAfter long time Archibald returned home and on August 5 in 1919 their daughter Rosalind was born.

Agatha and Archie went in 1922 on a British Empire Exhibition. They also moved to a house called "Styles" after her first novel.

But the marriage was unhappy. It didn't last because Archie had fallen in love with another woman and so he asked for a divorce in 1926.

The same year also her mother died. Because of that Agatha went    missing for 11 days and was eventually found in a hotel in Harrogate, in the North of England under an alias. She vanished after crashing her Morris motor car. But her disappearance is still a mystery.

In 1928 the divorce was finalized and Archibald Christie then married Nancy Nelle and died in 1962. She later found happiness with her marriage to Max Mallowan on September 11 in 1930, an archaeologist who she met on her travels in Near East in 1927. She later often assisted her husband on excavations in Syria and Iraq.

She later often told:"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her."

Interesting

-Ideas about why Agatha wrote like she did.

During World War 1 she worked as a pharmacist, a job that also influenced her work: many of the murders in her books are carried out with Poison.

In December 1926 she disappeared for eleven days, causing quite a storm in the press. Her car was found abandoned in a chalk pit. She was eventually found staying at a hotel in Harrogate, where she claimed to have suffered amnesia due to a nervous breakdown following the death of her mother and troubles in her first marriage. Opinions are still divided as to whether this was a publicity or not. A 1927 film, Agatha, starring Vanessa Redgave as Christie, recounted a fictionalised version of the disappearance.

-Agatha and her Travel.

In 1930, Christie married Sir Max Mallowan, a British archeologist, and her travels with him contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. Other novels were set in Torquay,Devon, where she was born. Famous characters include Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. 

-Breaking Records.

Her stage play The Mouse Trap holds the record for the longest run ever in London, opening at the Ambassadors Theatre on November 25, 1952 and as of 2005 still running after more than 20,000 performances.

-An Interview with Agatha.

here is an Interview with Agatha where she talks about her education and how she grew up, also about how she writes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/agatha_christie/12503.shtml

Christie and her Mysteries

       Agatha went a childhood with home-school and became one of the most well known authors on the planet. At the young age of 11 her father died, I believe that the death of her father may have led her to writing about death, murder, crime and mysteries.When she was 25 she married her 1st husband, Archibald Christie, that year Agathas' mother died, Heartbreaking for poor Agatha. And four miserable long years later Agatha has a beautiful child named Rosalind, who she loved and Cherished all through out her life.  In January 1917, at the age of 27 she completes her first novel, although it was turned down by 6 publishers and it took 3 long years for it to finally be published. As she thought she might have a better year in 1928, she got a divorce with her first husband, Archibald. And as things get worse because her beloved brother, Monty, dies. As Agatha does she got on with her life and 2 years later she re-marries to a man call Max Mallowan, together they set out on journeys across the world, to places such as Egypt, Arpachiyah (this is where Max conducted his first dig.), Nimrud and many other places, this leads me to believe that her Journeys with max inspired her to write about the countries they went to.

                                                   MAX MALLOWAN

                                            ARCHIBALD CHRISTIE

                                               ROSALIND HICKS

Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie, the women of many books, novels & biographies.