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00:00Women who change the world.
00:30Very few of us are what we seem, Agatha Christie.
00:37Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born on the 15th of September 1890 in Torquay Devon,
00:44southwest England, into a comfortably well-off middle-class family.
00:48In her early years, Christie didn't go to school, but was educated at home by her mother
00:54and various governesses.
00:56Her parents taught her how to read, write, perform arithmetic, and play music.
01:01When her father died, Agatha was sent to a girls' school.
01:05She continued her education in Paris, France.
01:08As a child, the girl wanted to devote her life to music, but the fear of public speaking prevented
01:13her from delivering those plans.
01:16By the age of 18, Agatha Christie was amusing herself with writing short stories, some of
01:22which were published in much revised form in the 1930s.
01:26She submitted them to various publishers and literary magazines, but they were all rejected.
01:32Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Stiles, was written as a dare from her sister.
01:38Though it took a few years to go to press, Christie was the clear winner of the bet.
01:43This was the book that introduced the iconic detective character, Hercules Perrault.
01:49The first novel was published only in 1920.
01:52By 1926, Christie became quite famous.
01:56Her works were published in a large number of world magazines.
01:59In 1927, Miss Marple appeared in the story, The Tuesday Night Club.
02:05It was in 1912 that Agatha met Archie Christie, a qualified aviator.
02:11They married on Christmas Eve 1914 after both had experienced war.
02:16Archie in France and Agatha on the home front, now working with the Voluntary Aid Detachment in
02:22a Red Cross hospital.
02:24Christie had a lifelong interest in archaeology, and it was on a trip to the excavation of the
02:29station site at Ur that she met her second husband, Max Malawan, in 1930.
02:35She married him.
02:37This marriage was happier, and it continued until Christie's death in 1976.
02:42Her only child, Rosalind Hicks, came from her first marriage.
02:47The most outstanding detective novels of Agatha Christie are considered The Murder of Roger
02:53Ackroyd , Murder on the Orient Express , Death on the Nile , Ten Little
03:03Niggers , They Came to Baghdad .
03:09Her later works are Endless Night, Halloween Party, and Postern of Fate.
03:15Agatha Christie went on to write over 40 novels featuring the proud and immaculate Hercules
03:21Poirot.
03:22Christie had no great love for her own creation.
03:24Poirot seemed to be admired by the public more than the writer herself.
03:28Agatha Christie was also a successful playwright.
03:32Agatha Christie became and remains the best-selling novelist of all time.
03:38She is thought to have sold more books than any other fiction writer, with the possible exception
03:43of Shakespeare.
03:44Her works have been translated into 103 languages, making her the most translated author to date.
03:51She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as
03:58the world's longest-running play, The Mousetrap.
04:02Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation.
04:08She is considered to be the best-selling writer of all time.
04:13Only the Bible is known to have outstripped her collected sales of roughly four billion
04:18worldwide copies.
04:20Her works have been translated into more languages than any other individual writer.
04:26Her life of education, travel, archaeological digs, and volunteer nursing all helped shape
04:32her as a writer.
04:34She earned many honors in her lifetime, including President of the Detection Club and Dame Commander
04:40of the Order of the British Empire.
04:56She is the man who changed the world.
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