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Also at Greenway are books, artwork, and photography. These include ceramics, porcelain, china, and pottery. Include those collected by Agatha and Max, but also of Rosalind and Anthony as well. The items acquired by the family and displayed at Greenhouse do not just There is much to see from the multi-generational collecting of Agatha's family, starting with her American father Frederick Alvah Miller. Thisīook also includes details on the house and grounds of Greenway along with beautiful photographs. Research done by the National Trust on Greenway, I highly recommend Hilary Macaskill's book Agatha Christie at Home, which is reviewed right here at Hercule Poirot Central. The National Trust has restored and preserved the estate so it reflects what it looked like when the Mallowans lived there in the 1950s. Indeed that is the case, as any visitor can see with a tour National Trust, the organization dedicated to heritage and environmental conservation that cares for historic properties (website is atĪgatha's grandson, Mathew Prichard, said that everyone who came to visit Greenway felt welcomed because "it does have a very relaxed feeling about it". It was in 2000 that they decided to give Greenway to the Her daughter Rosalind Hicks and her husband Anthony lived in the house from 1968 until Rosalind's death in 2004, and Anthony's in 2005. It remained in the family after AgathaĪnd Max passed way. Greenway House was a white Georgian house that she had always admired since she was young and was happy to hear that it was for sale. (The Mallowans lived at Winterbrook House in Winterbrook, a small town in the English county of Oxfordshire. Purchased in 1938, the estate was the summer retreat for the couple. It is situated on the eastern bank of the River Dart near the town of Galmpton in theĬounty of Devon.
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If you like Agatha Christie and her milieu, stop by and have a look round.Greenway House was the (former) holiday home of Agatha Christie and her second husband Max Mallowan. In the meantime, she will say that this post is part of a series, the Agatha Christie Blog Tour, intended to commemorate her life and work. One cannot discuss mysteries intelligently, he writes, without discussing their endings. The critic of detective fiction, he wryly observes, 'must be either a knave or a fool,' for the elegance of the narrative lies in the arc from crime to solution. Sir Max himself gives a charming perspective on Agatha's novels and craft, though he is careful to stop short of offering literary criticism. To have read Agatha's autobiography or Come Tell Me How You Live (1946) or any of her works set in the Middle East is to get a special sense of insight when reading Max's account. In fact, they complement each other quite smartly. What Miss Lemon finds so intriguing about reading Mallowan's Memoirs is how his perspective aligns with that found in Agatha's varied works. And the marriage - despite rumours of Max's affair with Barbara Parker, whom he married after Agatha's death - was a happy one. Indeed, Mallowan's Memoirs is dedicated to Rosalind, Agatha's only child, 'with love.' The two - Max no great mystery fan and Agatha no great archaeologist - in the end made an interesting pair.
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He found the task - and the mystery writer - so agreeable that Max Mallowan and Agatha Christie were married on 11 September 1930. She ordered Max to escort Agatha, who was on her second excursion to the Middle East, on a round-trip tour of Baghdad. But it was Katherine's imperious nature that brought Max and Agatha together. He describes the notoriously difficult nature of the Wooleys - both of Leonard and even more so, of Katherine, who is gently portrayed in Agatha's Murder in Mesopotamia (1936). The odyssey at Ur is where Sir Max's absorbing tale begins. After graduation, he foundered a bit until being invited to join Leonard Wooley as an apprentice at Ur, an ancient city, now located partway between Baghdad and the head of the Persian Gulf. He was her husband, after all.įourteen years younger than Agatha, Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (he was knighted in 1968) was a classmate of Evelyn Waugh at Lancing and went on to earn a B.A. The book is excellent for its vivid recollections of the digs at Ur, Nineveh, and Chagar Bazar, among others its plates and illustrations of people, excavation sites and artifacts and of course its observations on life with Dame Agatha. As we near the 120th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth (15 September 1890, for those who need reminding), Miss Lemon thought, what better way to celebrate the double-diamond jubilee than with a view of the grande dame of mystery through the eyes of archaeologist and Asiatic scholar, Max Mallowan?Īnd what better place to get that view than from Mallowan's Memoirs: The Autobiography of Max Mallowan (1977).