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Dame Agatha Christie
(1890-1976)
Born: 15th September 1890 at Torquay, Devon
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Died: 12th January 1976 at Winterbrook, Berkshire
Dame Agatha Christie, Lady Mallowan, was born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, in Torquay in Devon, the daughter of an American stockbroker, Frederick Alvah Miller, and his English wife, Clarissa Margaret Boehmer.
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She grew up in South Devon and at Ealing in Middlesex. In 1912, she met her first husband, Archibald Christie, an army officer who became seconded to the Royal Flying Corps stationed in Farnborough. They were married two years later, and had one daughter, Rosalind, together.
During the First World War, Agatha became a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, treating wounded soldiers in Torquay, and, later, she trained as a pharmacist.
Although, before the War, Agatha had written short stories and an unpublished novel, based around her interest in spiritualism and the paranormal, in 1920 she began writing in earn