You're Dead to Me

Agatha Christie (Radio Edit)

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Jul 8, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Self-Taught Reader And Imaginary Play

  • Agatha Christie taught herself to read against her mother's wishes and occupied herself with storytelling as a child.
  • She looked up to her older sister Madge and felt like an only child despite having siblings.
ANECDOTE

Marriage During Wartime And Nursing Work

  • Agatha married Archibald Christie in December 1914 during his wartime leave.
  • She volunteered as a VAD nurse in World War I and worked in a hospital dispensary mixing medicines.
INSIGHT

Medical Work Shaped Her Plots

  • Christie's dispensary work in WWI taught her about poisons and deaths that became staples of her fiction.
  • She channelled hospital experience directly into The Mysterious Affair at Styles and her depiction of poisonings.
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