Agatha Christie

The dawn of the modern Age

• Free schooling for everyone

• New social welfare programs

• The cold war had ended

• Women were allowed to vote and have jobs

World War 1

• WW1 started in August 1914 and ended in November 1918

• Seven Million died• Five Million were injured• Some poets started to write

• One of these poets was Robert Graves…

Robert Graves• Born in 1895 and died in 1985

• Beauty in Trouble Beauty in trouble flees to the good angel On whom she can rely To pay her cab-fare, run a steaming bath, Poultice her bruised eye; Will not at first, whether for shame or caution, Her difficulty disclose; Until he draws a cheque book from his plumage, Asking her how much she owes; (Breakfast in bed: coffee and marmalade, Toast, eggs, orange-juice, After a long, sound sleep - the first since when? - And no word of abuse.) Loves him less only than her saint-like mother, Promises to repay His loans and most seraphic thoughtfulness A million-fold one day. Beauty grows plump, renews her broken courage And, borrowing ink and pen, Writes a news-letter to the evil angel (Her first gay act since when?): The fiend who beats, betrays and sponges on her, Persuades her white is black, Flaunts vespertilian wing and cloven hoof; And soon will fetch her back. Virtue, good angel, is its own reward: Your dollars were well spent. But would you to the marriage of true minds Admit impediment?

Robert Graves

A new kind of writing

• E.M Foster (1879-1970)• A major influence was the

British writer T.S Elliot (1888-1965)

• T.S Elliot tried to create a new type of writing. He also wrote poems

• A novel by James Joyce brought attention to the new literature

• These writers dealt with the affects of the War

Agatha Christie

• Her full name was Agatha May Clarissa Miller

• She was born 1890 in Devon England

• Her parents were Fredrick and Clara Miller

• Her Dad died when she was 11

School• She did not attend school until she was sixteen

• She attended a school in Paris where she studied music• She looked to music to express herself

Writing

• Her mother introduced her to writing

• Her mother loved mysteries and was curious about the unknown

• Agatha got some of her ideas from these stories

• She began to develop her interest…

Married life

• She married at the age of 24• She married a flight pilot named Archibald

Christie• They had a child called Rosalind• In 1914, Archibald joined WWI• Agatha wanted to help the War, so she

worked as a nurse in a pharmacy.• Working as a nurse inspired her to write

Writing

• Most of her books were set during the War

• She wrote 80 mystery novels• She sold over two billion copies in

forty five different languages• Only - Shakespeare and the Bible

have sold more books.• Agatha faced difficulties. Eight

publishers refused to help her - so she wrote under a pen name: Nathaniel Miller

Rebirth

• Her mother died at the age of seventy-two• Her husband left her

• As a result - she disappeared• She remarried in September 1936 and started writing again

• She wrote Death on the Nile…

Fame

• Her books and plays started to appear on television

• In 1950, she became very popular.

• Radio and television gave her a lot of fame

• Many people started to read her novels.

Autobiography

• She wrote it to let people know about her life, the hard times she faced growing up and why she disappeared etc.

• She has also wrote a special book that she dedicated to both her husband and her daughter.

Dame of the British Empire

• Queen Elizabeth named her Dame of the British Empire in 1971

• She died January 12, 1976• She was buried in a small Church

• Agatha once said “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked

with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

The end

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