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Agatha Christie: Wave Runner

Posted in Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the, LITERATURE, EDUCATION, & REFORM, PEOPLE, Queen Elizabeth II, ROYALTY/NOBILITY, tagged 1924 British Empire Exhibition, Agatha Christie, Archie Christie, biographies of women, biographies of women writers, biographies of writers, Buckingham Palace, Dame of the British Empire, early days of surfing, Edward Prince of Wales surfing, Moana Hotel, pictures of Agatha Christi surfing, pictures of Agatha Christie, pictures of surfing, Queen Elizabeth II, South Africa, surfing, surfing history, surfing in Hawaii, surfing in South Africa, the Makura ship, Waikiki Beach, women surfing, women writers on May 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

In the early morning hours of August 6, 1922, crime novelist Agatha Christie and her husband, Archie Christie, sailed into Honolulu, Hawaii, on the Makura and hailed a taxi. On their drive to the Moana Hotel, they passed between palm trees and hedges of hibiscus, red, pink, and white oleanders, and blue plumbago. At their hotel, the sea washed right up to the courtyard […]

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Agatha Christie: An English Lady in African Waters

Posted in Agatha Christie, LITERATURE, EDUCATION, & REFORM, PEOPLE, tagged Admiral Goodenough, Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie and The British Empire Exposition, Agatha Christie in South Africa, Agatha Christie liked to swim, Agatha Christie pictures, Archie Christie, biographies of women, biographies of women writers, Cape Town, False Bay, Great White Shark, Hercule Poirot, Muizenberg, shark attack, sharks, Simonstown, South Africa, South Africa and sharks, the British Empire, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Torquay, women writers on April 29, 2014| 1 Comment »

It was all a bit of a lark! There they were, Archie and Agatha Christie, just trolling along, living their ordinary lives in their Battersea Park flat, with him working in London, her writing mystery novels at home, the two of them raising little Rosalind, poor as church mice, unable to afford any amusements, when, in […]

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Agatha Christie: Swimming in Lead Chains

Posted in Agatha Christie, Annette Kellerman, PEOPLE, tagged Agatha Christie, Annette Kellerman, bathing suit fashion, biographies of women, biographies of women writers, Edwardian Era fashion, England, mixed bathing in England, old-fashioned bathing suits, sea bathing, Torquay, Victorian bathing suits, Victorian modesty, Victorian standards, women writers, women's vintage swimsuits on April 22, 2014| 1 Comment »

Agatha Christie (1890-1976) never outgrew her childhood love of sea bathing. She spent her early years in the coastal town of Torquay, England, in Devon, on the English Channel. In summer, she swam in the sea practically every day, even if it rained or stormed. Not only locals like Agatha enjoyed Torquay’s beaches. Torquay [tor-kee] was a posh seaside resort, a popular winter and summer holiday destination for wealthy Europeans and […]

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Agatha Christie: Looking for Mr. Right

Posted in Agatha Christie, PEOPLE, tagged Agatha Christie, Archie Christie, biographies of women, biographies of women writers, Edwardian Era, England, husband hunting, marriage, Mr. Right, Peter Pan collars, pictures of Agatha Christie, Queen Mary of England, women writers, World War I on April 17, 2014| 6 Comments »

Thinking back over her teenage years, English crime novelist Agatha Christie (1890-1976) wasn’t sure how long she had been at her finishing school in Paris. In her autobiography, she wrote: I am hazy now as to how long I remained at Miss Dryden’s – a year, perhaps eighteen months, I do not think as long as two years.” Upon […]

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Gene Tierney’s Fragile Life

Posted in Agatha Christie, ART, PHOTOGRAPHY, FASHION, & DESIGN, Gene Tierney, Howard Hughes, LITERATURE, EDUCATION, & REFORM, Measles, MEDICINE, Oleg Cassini, PEOPLE, STAGE & SCREEN, World War II, tagged Agatha Christie, birth defects, catalina island, childbirth, gene tierney and handicapped daughter, gene tierney and measles, gene tierney and mental illness, gene tierney and the war effort, Hollywood Canteen, measles vaccine, MMR vaccinations, Oleg Cassini, pearl harbor, rubella birth defects, the mirror crack'd from side to side, USO shows, war bonds, World War II on January 25, 2015| 24 Comments »

On Sunday, December 7, 1941, actress Gene Tierney, age 21, and film star Henry Fonda were filming “Rings on Her Fingers” on Catalina Island, 22 miles off the southern California coast. The cameras were getting ready to roll when a man came running down the beach screaming: “The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor! “ Pearl Harbor was in […]

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