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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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M'lud, members of the jury - it is with a sense of deep mortification that I must confess to a hitherto shameful ignorance of the life and work of Miss Margery Allingham (late of this parish) and must therefore throw myself on the mercy of the court. In mitigation, I can only ask the court to take into account my recent diligent study of Miss Julia Jones' absolutely first rate account of the life of this eminent exponent of the fine art of detective fiction.
Seriously, though, this is an excellent biography that explores Margery Allingham's life as both a woman and a writer.
One of the main themes of the book is the tension between writing as art and writing as necessity. Jones draws out those aspects of Allingham's background and personality that drove her to write as an act of creativity, coming to regard her books as her children. At the same time, she was a professional who wrote in order to earn a living, taking her from the world of the penny dreadful and the first women's magazines to international fame as a queen of crime and guest appearances on Woman's Hour.
As a woman, Margery Allingham lived a complicated and often chaotic life split between the London of commercial publishing and the large house in rural Essex, which she and her husband, Pip, could never quite afford. In addition to visitors, the country house was also home for a variety of friends, family, inherited servants and miscellaneous dogs and horses.
As a newcomer to Allingham, I watched the BBC's dramatisation of Campion alongside reading "The Adventures of Margery Allingham" and was able to appreciate the way in which she had woven material from her life and experiences into her fiction.
A fascinating insight into the life of a fascinating, talented and slightly eccentric lady.
Seriously, though, this is an excellent biography that explores Margery Allingham's life as both a woman and a writer.
One of the main themes of the book is the tension between writing as art and writing as necessity. Jones draws out those aspects of Allingham's background and personality that drove her to write as an act of creativity, coming to regard her books as her children. At the same time, she was a professional who wrote in order to earn a living, taking her from the world of the penny dreadful and the first women's magazines to international fame as a queen of crime and guest appearances on Woman's Hour.
As a woman, Margery Allingham lived a complicated and often chaotic life split between the London of commercial publishing and the large house in rural Essex, which she and her husband, Pip, could never quite afford. In addition to visitors, the country house was also home for a variety of friends, family, inherited servants and miscellaneous dogs and horses.
As a newcomer to Allingham, I watched the BBC's dramatisation of Campion alongside reading "The Adventures of Margery Allingham" and was able to appreciate the way in which she had woven material from her life and experiences into her fiction.
A fascinating insight into the life of a fascinating, talented and slightly eccentric lady.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a detailed and sympathetic biography, but not blind to the difficulties of the subject. It is clear that the author was regarded as a trusted friend of the subject's family, but that has not made her deferential or caused her to skirt problems. The book presents a fascinating glimpse of a chaotic and variously driven household, from which the emergence of a notable series of distinguished crime novels seems miraculous. Both Allingham and the army of supporting and incidental characters are depicted with grace and conviction, and there is plenty of unobtrusive academic apparatus to assist future students. Sound, readable, and persuasive.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Don't know why it has the title The Adventures of Margery Allingham as she had few 'adventures' during her life mainly spent at home in Suffolk/Essex. She never ventured abroad like Agatha Christie who spent time Mesopotamia. Though Margery is much the better writer and probably her best book is 'Tiger in the Smoke' a classic, clever. occult novel.
However, her life story is mundane it discloses her thyroid problem, and subsequent over-weight, which went unrecognised and untreated for too long. Sad she never had any children, although her husband and close friends relied on her to be the grown-up, responsible one in their 'family' - she referred to them as 'the kids' in her diaries.
I've always enjoyed reading Margery Allingham as she writes so well which is no surprise really, coming as she does from a family of writers - mother, father, aunt, grandparents. This biography will be found interesting by all aspiring writers and fans of Margery A.
However, her life story is mundane it discloses her thyroid problem, and subsequent over-weight, which went unrecognised and untreated for too long. Sad she never had any children, although her husband and close friends relied on her to be the grown-up, responsible one in their 'family' - she referred to them as 'the kids' in her diaries.
I've always enjoyed reading Margery Allingham as she writes so well which is no surprise really, coming as she does from a family of writers - mother, father, aunt, grandparents. This biography will be found interesting by all aspiring writers and fans of Margery A.
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