Interview with Gillian Gill, Author of Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries

All About Agatha Christie

Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan

Tv & Film, Books, Film Reviews, Arts

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

What a pleasure to chat with one of the early Christie biographers--and critical analysts--about Agatha Christie as both a writer and a person. We even talk about sex! (Consider yourselves titillated... even though Agatha definitely would not have been.) You can find bonus material at: http://www.patreon.com/allaboutagatha.

This episode is sponsored by http://www.smilebrilliant.com. Remember to use coupon code AGATHA.

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0:00.0	Welcome to all about Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking.
0:09.7	Every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime, Dame Agatha Christie.
0:14.7	I am Kemper Donovan, and in this episode I will be interviewing Jillian Gill, the author
0:21.9	of Agatha Christie, The Woman and Her Mysteries.
0:26.4	And when I teased this interview in the last episode, one of you actually reached out
0:30.7	to me and let me know that it was this very book of Jillian Gill's that convinced them
0:36.0	over 20 years ago, there was more to Agatha than her popularity.
0:40.8	As indeed, we all know by this point, and I think that we owe a little bit of a debt
0:46.2	to Jillian Gill because she was one of the first people who was making that argument.
0:50.8	And I'm so excited to have been able to have the conversation with her about her book
0:55.7	and Agatha Christie.
0:57.1	And I just want to say, before I launch into this interview, that the reason I was able
1:01.0	to make contact with Jillian is due to another Christie biographer whose book on Christie
1:07.8	is not yet out.
1:09.2	That would be Lucy Worsley whose book Agatha Christie and Allusive Woman is coming out
1:15.0	later this year.
1:16.0	I am so excited for that.
1:17.9	And I just want to thank her for putting me in touch with Jillian who really is such
1:21.3	an important part of the biographical landscape of Christie.
1:25.4	I mentioned Janet Morgan a lot on this podcast whose 1984 biography of Christie is the
1:32.1	first official one.
1:33.4	And in some ways, the standard from which all others deviate just packed with information
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