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AuCNLKIN |
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20221018163901.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781529303889 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1529303885 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1325674286 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
QPPL |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
QPPL |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
NJB |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.912 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Worsley, Lucy, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE |
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| Title |
Agatha Christie : |
| Remainder of title |
a very elusive woman / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Lucy Worsley. |
| 246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Very elusive woman |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London, UK : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Hodder & Stoughton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 415 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour), genealogical table ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Preface: Hiding in plain sight -- Part one: Victorian girl - 1890s / 1. The house where I was born -- 2. Insanity in the family -- 3. The thing in the house -- 4. Ruined -- Part two: Edwardian debutante - 1900s / 5. Waiting for the man -- 6. Best Victorian lavatory -- 7. The Gezireh Palace Hotel -- 8. Enter Archibald -- Part three: Wartime nurse - 1914-18 / 9. Torquay Town Hall -- 10. Love and death -- 11. Enter Poirot -- 12. The Moorland Hotel -- Part four: Bright young author - 1920s / 13. Enter London -- 14. Enter Rosalind -- 15. The British mission -- 16. Thrillers -- Part five - 1926 / 17. Sunningdale -- 18. The mysterious affair at Styles -- 19. Disappearance -- 20. The Harrogate Hydropathic Hotel -- 21. Reappearance -- Part six: Plutocratic period - 1930s / 22. Mesopotamia -- 23. Enter Max -- 24. I think I will marry you -- 25. Eight houses -- 26. The golden age -- Part seven: Wartime worker - 1940s / 27. Beneath the bombs -- 28. A daughter's daughter -- 29. Life is rather complicated -- 30. By Mary Westmacott -- Part eight: Taken at the flood - 1950s / 31. A big expensive dream -- 32. They came to Baghdad -- 33. Christie-land after the war -- 34. Second row in the stalls -- 35. A charming grandmother -- Part nine: No swinging - 1960s / 36. The mystery of the Christie fortune -- 37. A queer lot -- 38. Lady detectives -- 39. To know when to go -- Part ten: Curtain - 1970s / 40. Winterbrook -- 41. The funeral -- Sources -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Picture acknowledgements. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.' Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Christie, Agatha, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1890-1976. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4837 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Authors, English |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Detective and mystery stories |
| General subdivision |
Authorship. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
22848 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Modern history (c 1788-1914) |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Biography & Memoir |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
Literary studies & criticism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
