![]() ![]() In April 1901, aged 10, she wrote her first poem, “The Cow Slip”. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.” – Agatha Christie The flight only lasted five minutes, but she loved it.Īgatha Christie’s foray into the Literary World: She had to spend five pounds for the experience, and an additional half-crown for a commemorative photograph afterwards. In 1911, Christie was thrilled by her first trip in an aeroplane. The verdict was that she would make a good concert singer, but that her voice would never be strong enough for opera. She harboured a secret fantasy to be an opera singer which was shattered when a friend, connected with the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, came to hear her sing. In her late teens she studied in Paris to be a classical musician but was too nervous to perform. She often overheard the gossips of visitors at home, which often revolved around crime, and used it as a plot to write her crime stories. She had a strong dislike for oyster soup and this acted as an inspiration for her story “The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.” Since her childhood days she was very observative and a keen listener. Having a strong craving for lavish feasts prepared during Christmas, Agatha Christie would often engage in eating contests with her friends. She also performed in amateur theatricals at Cockington Court in Torquay. As an adolescent, she enjoyed works by Anthony Hope, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, and Alexandre Dumas.Īs a young girl, she played Colonel Fairfax in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard. When a little older, she moved on to the surreal verse of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. Among her earliest memories were reading children’s books by Mrs. They also taught her music, and she learned to play the piano and the mandolin. Agatha Christie was a voracious reader from a very early age which enthused her parents to supervise her studies in reading, writing, and basic arithmetic, a subject she particularly enjoyed. She never went to school but was educated by her mother and a succession of governesses. “ One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.” – Agatha Christieĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, was born on 15th September 1890 into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies till date. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. As if mysteries were embedded in her DNA, she wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She wrote the world’s longest-running play, ‘The Mousetrap’, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020. Her books have been published in over 100 languages, making her the most translated writer of all time. ![]() ![]() With more than 2 billion books published, she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. ![]() Author of 66 crime novels, 6 non-criminal novels, 150 short stories and whose career spanned more than five decades, Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the Doyenne of Murder Mysteries. ![]()
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