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Lucy Worsley

I was born in Reading (not great, but it could have been Slough), studied Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, and I've got a PhD in art history from the University of Sussex.My first job after leaving college was at a crazy but wonderful historic house called Milton Manor in Oxfordshire. Here I would give guided tours, occasionally feed the llamas, and look for important pieces of paper that my boss Anthony had lost. Soon after that I moved to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, in the lovely job for administrator of the Wind and Watermills Section. Here I helped to organise that celebrated media extravaganza, National Mills Day. I departed for English Heritage in 1997, first as an Assistant Inspector and then as an Inspector of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings; Bolsover Castle, Hardwick Old Hall, and Kirby Hall were my favourite properties there. In 2002 I made a brief excursion to Glasgow Museums before coming down to London as Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces in 2003. Yes, this is a brilliant job, but no, you can’t have it. (Bribes have been offered, and refused.)You might also catch me presenting history films on the old goggle box, giving the talks on the cruise ship Queen Mary 2, or slurping cocktails.
yıl ömür: 18 Aralık 1973 şu an

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This notion that writing was just one of a string of hobbies or accomplishments was more widespread than you might think. Madge sent her stories to Vanity Fair for pin money. Agatha’s grandmother Polly, skilled at embroidery, used her needle to support her family. In each case, what was considered a harmless pastime led to cash. Nothing could be further from the Romantic idea of the artist: a starving, struggling figure in his garret, hurling his genius at his lonely task. But then female writers have always fitted their work in around the edges of ordinary life. ‘How much more interesting it would be if I could say that I always longed to be a writer,’ Agatha confessed, later, but ‘such an idea never came into my head.’
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Ethel was working full-time in a mill at thirteen; she had her first poem published in the Blackburn Times at eighteen. ‘We think we have found a new singer,’ wrote a critic, ‘what might such a singer accomplish if she had more leisure than hard factory work affords?’9 In 1913 Ethel went on to write a novel, Miss Nobody, thought to be the first published in Britain by a working-class woman. Had Agatha likewise needed to earn a living, she may well have remained a Miss Nobody too.
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history’s most-performed female playwright.
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