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quotenova · 3 days
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Fear is only incomplete knowledge. https://www.quotenova.net/authors/agatha-christie/qz7697
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jazzandpizazz · 2 years
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First time drawing Kenneth Branagh as Poirot :0
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living400lbs · 1 year
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"Agatha [Christie] eventually made the decision – fateful for her future – to leave the wards to train to work instead in the hospital pharmacy. This had interesting challenges and better hours. ‘I mastered the simpler facts,’ she wrote, of her new job, ‘and after we had blown up our Cona coffee machine in the process of practising Marsh’s test for arsenic our progress was well on the way.’
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Agatha’s allies against the stiff sisters and the snooty doctors were her fellow volunteers, who became friends. They showed they realised just how much they were going against their upbringing when they gave their group a name. They called themselves the ‘Queer Women’. Everyone in the hospital was desperate for fun, because as Agatha explains, ‘they didn’t like talking about the war.’ So, she and the other ‘Queer Women’ produced an amusing spoof hospital magazine."
Records show Agatha worked 3400 hours as a nurse in the first 2 years of WWI, eventually being put on payroll at £16 per year.
From Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
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professorpski · 10 months
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When you went to a wedding, a hat was a 'must.' But even then Mrs. Oliver kept two. One... was of feathers. It fitted closely to the head and stood up very well to squalls of rain if they should overtake one unexpectedly.... The other, and more elaborate hat, was definitely for attending a wedding held on a Saturday afternoon in summer. It had flowers and chiffon and a covering of yellow net attached with mimosa.
This is from Agatha Christie novel Elephants Can Remember from 1972. In England, hats often are still a must for wedding. In the US, they are only an option, and not one often taken.
If you do wear hat to a formal social event, everyone will come up to you and talk about it, thus revealing how many women long for the chance to wear hats, but haven't the courage in face of the general abandonment of hats in the 1960s.
It was big hair and lots of hairspray which first undermined hats in the late 1950s. Then, they became seen as old-fashioned, and the generation wearing them died out, thus we lost one of our more amusing fashion options. Sigh.
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cozyanna · 1 month
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Leitura da vez. Tem sido divertissimo ler mais livros da Agatha Christie. Esse em particular tem me deixado viciada.
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alejandromogollo · 1 year
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Remembering our beloved Dame Angela Lansbury on her birthday. She would’ve been 97 today. Here as the delightfully funny romance novelist Salome Otterbourne in Agatha Christie’s murder mistery Death on the Nile. What is your favourite quote from the movie? #angelalansbury #dameangelalansbury #deathonthenile #agathachristie #salomeotterbourne #murdermystery #AlejandroMogolloArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CjxvU02op1_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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★ You’re solving a cold case, which three characters are you taking along to help you crack the mystery? I don’t say this enough, but @maureenjohnsonbooks’ Truly Devious series is a must read. If you are a whodunnit mystery fan, à la Agatha Christie or Gosford Park or Knives Out, this series is going to be like candy for you. Love love love these books so much, and beyond thrilled the series continued after the first three books! Nine Liars just released a couple week ago and this whole series is perfect for a cozy weekend binge read by the fire. Check the comments for the description of Nine Liars and maybe check my stories to see how you can support the employees who helped make this book happen! ♥️ Thank you to @epicreads for sending me a copy of the book! ★ HASHTAGS // #NineLiarsTour #NineLiars #MaureenJohnson #Epicreads #storygramtours #YABooks #mysterybooks #trulydevious #booklover #bookstack #stencilededges #bookaesthetic #agathachristie #knivesout #whodunnit #bookaesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/CnK0l8yy5P0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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thereaderbee · 1 year
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🍂 What are you reading this week?? Happy Monday, Bookworms … How was your weekend? Did you get much reading done? I finished one of my current reads, and made some progress with another book as well. 🧡 What’s everyone reading this week? I am hoping to finish up a few of the books I’m currently in the middle of. I’m also in a murder mystery kind of mood, so I am reading *And Then There Were None* by Agatha Christie as well. I’m really enjoying it so far. 🧡 What are you guys reading? 🍂 🍁 🍂 🍁 🍂 🍁 #AlltheBooksNov22 #MyFictionalMusings #ReadingintheWeb #CourtofReadingNov22 🍁 🍂 🍁 🍂 🍁 🍂 #agathachristie #currentlyreading #amreading #tbr #toberead #books #reading #mystery #mysterybooks #bookstagram #bookshelf #bookstack #yabooks #funkopop #booklover #ilovebooks #bookobsessed #booknerd #booksaremagic #fiction #readinglife #bookish #readmorebooks #mondayvibes #booksofinstagram #readersofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOUR2CuimM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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ninasooophie · 1 year
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Weihnachtsfeier mit einem Mord ? Cluedo feeling in einem Buch wer war der Mörder und wie ? Eigentlich ist Hercule Poirot nur auf besuch bei einem befreundeten Polizeibeamten doch dann landet er mitten in einem Familienmord. Simon Lee wird tot aufgefunden, das Zimmer in dem die Leiche liegt ist verschlossen, die Fenster geschlossen aber Selbstmord scheint unmöglich. Wie ist der Mörder aber aus dem geschlossenen Raum entkommen ? Und welcher der Angehörigen hat den Mord begangen ? Poirot findet sich in mitten eines Familiendrama um verletzte Gefühle, Rache und Intrigen. Agatha Christie enttäuscht auch mit diesem Buch nicht, es gibt eine Wendung nach der anderen und am Ende ist es zwar logisch wie der Mord begangen wurde aber damit gerechnet hat man trotzdem nicht. Spannung pur bis zur letzten Seite. #buchblogger #buchtipps #buchempfehlung #buchrezension #rezension #krimi #books #agathachristie https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6KfPlMPGb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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rafaelmaxlove · 9 months
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Reading a book in a lovely company. My brain cannot take nearly 1500 pages book that I tried to read so might try to read something thinner. I’ll try to read all Christie books in a chronological order. Failed previously.
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rjnello · 1 year
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Greenway Day
It was such a great weather day (and you need to take advantage of those here in the spring!) yesterday we took our eldest nephew (who had been visiting with us since Friday) up to Agatha Christie’s Greenway estate, which is owned now by the National Trust. It is about a 25 minute ferry trip from Dartmouth’s town jetty… [Photo by me, March 2023.] 1) Three books we bought in the shop there. I…
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dark-academia-store · 2 years
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"Minha chama solitária, Irradia o calor solar Sobre rosas mortificadas Trazendo luz da vida, A fagulha atemporal Da chave que reluz, dizendo: "Vinde ver a poesia mortal" A ausência do pote de vidro Não anula ou esconde, O enfrentamento com o abismo..." #darkacademia #livros #livroscapadura #gótico #estudos #literatura #literaturaclassica #dostoievski #crimeecastigo #enersthemingway #agathachristie https://www.instagram.com/p/Cif4kIdvt30/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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This is Halloween 🎃 Here are the books I read for my spooky October challenge 👻 I really enjoyed Death on the Nile and think my favourite read was Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 📚 What did you read for All Hallows Eve? #halloween #halloweendecor #halloweenreads #spooky #octoberreads #pumpkin #drjekyllandmrhyde #nightvale #agathachristie #deathonthenile #readingchallenge #roalddahl #wutheringheights #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #booksofinstagram #bibliophile #bookaholic #bookaddict #booklover #booknerd #bookworms #readersofinstagram #igreads #instabooks #fictionaddiction #cady_reads https://www.instagram.com/p/CkZu8TdS0GP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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living400lbs · 1 year
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On her first published novel, The Mysterious Affair At Styles:
"Agatha had created a fictional world that had much in common with her own. Even the novel’s murder speaks directly to her own family situation. The victim, Mrs Inglethorp, is a matriarch: a powerful, older woman, along the lines of [Agatha's mother]. This is a major difference between Agatha and her most obvious role model, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Right from the start, Agatha places the lives of women centre stage."
From Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
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professorpski · 1 year
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The last time he had seen Mrs. Oliver, her hair style had been plain and severe. It now displayed a richness of coils and twists arranged in intricate patterns all over her head. Its prolific luxury was, he suspected, largely artificial. He debated in his mind how many switches of hair might unexpectedly fall off if Mrs. Oliver were to get suddenly excited, as was her wont.
This passage from Third Girl published in 1966 makes clear that although the older generation, including the likes of Mrs. Oliver and Hercule Poirot, was taken aback by the new fashions of the young, at least Mrs. Oliver partook in some of the new fashions in hair styles.
Whenever you see what Agatha Christie calls here “a richness of coils and twists” in a fashion shoot from the mid-1960s or a movie or television series, you can be pretty sure they are artificial. While we tend to think of the 1960s as a time when simplicity rules, there were complex elements of design showing up too. And hair switches and wigs showed up even in the average woman’s wardrobe at times.
And in fact, Mrs. Oliver does get excited, gets an idea, grabs her head to think, and before you know it, one of the coils of hair hits the floor.
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Now why the Devil did I not pick this card game up when I worked on Murder on The Orient Express?! I FEEL LIKE A FOOL! #agathachristie #murderontheorientexpress #deathonthenile https://www.instagram.com/p/CnTF76jLG3P/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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