Mar
14
4:00pm
Lucy Worsley: Agatha Christie, A Very Elusive Woman
By TPLCulture
UnlistedHistorian, author, and TV presenter Lucy Worsley joins us to discuss Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman, her new authoritative and entertaining biography of the best-selling novelist of all time. In conversation with journalist and author Elizabeth Renzetti.
Why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha Christie 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. This 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 who was, as Worsley says, "thrillingly, scintillatingly modern."
Lucy Worsley shares with us what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
About this event's guests:
Lucy Worsley
Elizabeth Renzetti
Read more:
Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls
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This event is part of our signature Salon Series, where we host local and international authors, artists and thinkers in conversation about their new books and big ideas.
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