Maybe that’s a good thing, considering the atmosphere of dark deeds pervading her books.
Agatha christie daughter archive#
There aren’t a lot of children in Christie’s archive of characters. Although they are relatively pint-sized, Christie’s children are not only fully realized characters, they fulfill every role that a character in a murder mystery can play. And when one examines the child characters that Christie created in her fiction, this concept of “the little adult” becomes striking. The little girl that Christie creates in her autobiography sounds very grown up, indeed. It’s significant to mention that this conversation occurred when Rosalind was 10 or 11. He is rather good at tennis, isn’t he? He could play with me.” We might have a boat of our own, don’t you think? And he would be useful in a lot of ways. “In fact I think it would be a very good thing if you did marry him. “I think he’d be much the best,” said Rosalind. had made a great fuss of Rosalind and she had appeared delighted with the games he had played for her enjoyment. “I shouldn’t have liked you to marry Colonel R.,” said Rosalind thoughtfully. “I mean, it is the natural thing to do, isn’t it?” “Well, I expect you will sometime, said Rosalind, with the air of one who always considers all possibilities. “Rosalind,” I said, “would you mind if I married again?” Unsure whether she should accept his proposal, Christie writes that she sat down with Rosalind, “my home oracle,” to have a conversation: Christie divorced Archie in 1928, dated a few men, and then met and married the noted archaologist Max Mallowan in 1930. Her first decade saw her mother’s establishment as the Queen of Crime, the unhinging of the Christie marriage, and Agatha’s notorious disappearance. Rosalind’s childhood was a whirl of change. Giving us a cold look, she demanded: ‘Where’s my Auntie Punkie?’ My sister herself took her revenge on me by instructing me on exactly what Rosalind was allowed to eat, what she should wear, the way she should be brought up, and so on.” Rosalind treated us, as no doubt we deserved, as strangers with whom she was unacquainted.
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“It was exciting to go away it was wonderful to return. After taking a voyage around the world, including a surfing holiday in Hawaii, Christie wrote: Christie doesn’t dote constantly on her child soon after Rosalind’s birth, Agatha and her husband Archie embark on various travels, leaving the little girl with various nurses, friends and relatives. I’m sure the author liked her daughter very, very much, but when you pick out the bits about Rosalind throughout the book, it feels less like a mother-daughter relationship and more like one between a big grown-up and a little grown-up. So writes Agatha Christie in An Autobiography about the birth of her only child, Rosalind. She had a lot of dark hair, and she looked rather like a Red Indian she had not that pink, bald look that is so depressing in babies, and she seemed, from an early age, both gay and determined.” “I know all mothers rave about their babies, but I must say that, though I personally consider newborn babies definitely hideous, Rosalind actually was a nice-looking baby.