Agatha Christie with Mandolin
After a cursory search through the forum, I don't believe this photograph of Agatha Christie with a mandolin as found on the BBC News website (second photograph down the page) has been posted before.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34075279
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Agatha and her mandolin for posterity.
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The Case Of The Purloined Plectrum
or
Ten Little Bowlbacks
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A very talented lady for certain. I'm glad she eventually found happiness with her second husband. I want to visit her country house Greenway in Dartmouth one day.
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She does remind me of that girl on the record cover of Genesis' Nursery Cryme - and her dolls (creepy, aren't they) fit in with that, as does her later profession. The mandolin somehow stands out as the only comforting element.
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Caption accompanying that picture from a newspaper report:
The young Agatha playing the mandolin, aged 8 in 1898. ‘I am today the same person as that solemn little girl with pale flaxen sausage-curls,’ she later wrote. ‘I made my own world and my own playmates. I have never suffered the tedium of “nothing to do”’
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And Then There Were 8 Strings...Originally Posted by AlanN
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Well, now!
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Murder on the orange blossom special.
Somehow, over years of lecturing on agatha, I've never picked this up. Thank you!
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Well ... This would explain that: "A collection of previously unseen and rare photographs of Agatha Christie are on display at an exhibition marking the 125th anniversary of the author's birth." Someone probably opened up some old boxes and, ta-da!
Remember, mandolins were all the rage at the time. Very common to have photos taken with a prop, such as a mandolin. Anyone know whether she actually played?
PS: Never mind - got it: ... her parents were responsible for teaching her to read and write and to be able to perform basic arithmetic, a subject that she particularly enjoyed. They also taught her about music, and she learned to play both the piano and the mandolin.
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The Mystery of the Blue Chip
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At Bertram's Hotel
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The Mandolin Cracked from Side to Side
Miss Mandoples
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Picks on the Table
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Mandolinners can Remember
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More history:Wilbur Wright played mandolin,Orville played harmonica.
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Great right hand.
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