agatha christie by Maria Inês Paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0 en-us 2017-03-21 08:58:09 UTC 2024-05-18 12:14:00 UTC hello@padlet.com ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161411848 2017-03-21 09:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161411848 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161412116 2017-03-21 09:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161412116 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161413337  Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on 15 September 1890 in Torquay, South West England, into a middle class family. What made her unusual, even for its time, was that she was home schooled by her father, an American. Her mother, Clara, who was an excellent storyteller, did not want her to learn to read until she was eight but Agatha, bored and as the only child at home taught herself to read by the age of five. ]]> 2017-03-21 09:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161413337 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161413675 2017-03-21 09:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161413675 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161414025 By the age of 18 she was amusing herself with writing short stories – some of which were published in much revised form in the 1930s - with family friend and author Eden Philpotts offering constructive advice. “The artist is only the glass through which we see nature, and the clearer and more absolutely pure that glass, so much the more perfect picture we can see through it. Never intrude yourself.” 
 It was in 1912 that Agatha met Archie Christie, a qualified aviator who had applied to join the Royal Flying Corps.  They married on Christmas Eve in 1914 . They had a child called Rosslind. A few years later, they divorced.]]> 2017-03-21 09:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161414025 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/161414865 So where did the inspiration for Hercule Poirot come from? During the First World War there were Belgian refugees in most parts of the English countryside, Torquay was no exception. Although he was not based on any particular person, Agatha thought that a Belgian refugee, a former great Belgian policeman, would make an excellent detective for The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Hercule Poirot was born.


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Hercule Poirot first appeared in chapter two of Agatha Christie’s first published novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was completed in 1916.
The first description of Poirot was by Hastings in The Mysterious Affair at Styles who said, ‘He was hardly more than five feet four inches but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side…The neatness of his attire was almost incredible; I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound.”

]]> 2017-03-23 12:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162101581 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162102020 Following the war Agatha continued to write – experimenting with different types of thriller and murder mystery stories, creating first Tommy and Tuppence and then Miss Marple in quick succession.
Miss Marple first came into being in 1927 in The Tuesday Night Club, a short story pulled together into the collection The Thirteen Problems. It was first published in the December 1927 issue of Royal Magazine. Christie never expected Miss Marple to rival Poirot in the public’s affections but since the publication of The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930, Marple's first full length novel, readers were hooked. While Agatha Christie acknowledged that her grandmother had been a huge influence on the character, she writes that Miss Marple was "far more fussy and spinsterish than my grandmother ever was. But one thing she did have in common with her – though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right."]]> 2017-03-23 12:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162102020 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162106805 2017-03-23 12:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162106805 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162106994 2017-03-23 12:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162106994 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162108807 2017-03-23 13:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162108807 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162109739 2017-03-23 13:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162109739 1 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110021 2017-03-23 13:07:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110021 2 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110166 2017-03-23 13:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110166 3 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110421 2017-03-23 13:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110421 4 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110521 2017-03-23 13:08:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162110521 Miss Marple ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162111331 2017-03-23 13:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162111331 ines_paiva https://padlet.com/ines_paiva/r26bfqzmtiv0/wish/162112554 Agatha's last public appearance was at the opening night of the 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express starring Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. Her verdict: a good adaptation with the minor point that Poirot's moustaches weren't luxurious enough.

After a hugely successful career and a very happy life Agatha died peacefully on 12 January 1976. She is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Cholsey, near Wallingford.

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