A Very British Murder

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Also looking at crime fiction from Holmes to Christie to Sayers amongst others, this was a fascinating insight into crime and our different obsessions with it. I admittedly have not watched the television show that this is accompanies but I may have to rectify that. Thanks for putting me off LW's book. These tenth-hand opinions are so irritating! Try Ngaio Marsh's Artists in Crime for an uncosy interwar mystery. And isn't there a subtext: these books are BY women and ABOUT old ladies so they can't be any good? Wintle, Angela (12 April 2013). "LucyWorsley:Myfamilyvalues". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 November 2016.

A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley, review - The Telegraph A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley, review - The Telegraph

Worsley a, Lucy (2001). TheArchitecturalPatronageofWilliamCavendish,firstDukeofNewcastle,1593–1676 (D.Phil. thesis) . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Four-part series (April 2012). Hosted by GilesCoren, co-presented with JamesWong, AlexLanglands& AlysFowler. [37] As she moves into the twentieth century, Worsley largely pulls away from true crime to concentrate on the fictional. She discusses the Golden Age authors in some depth, giving almost mini-biographies of some of them, particularly Dorothy L Sayers. She argues (as others have done) that the Golden Age puzzle with its fairly defined rules developed as a response to the horrors of WW1 and fed into a society that wanted something a bit cosier than the blood-curdling melodramas of the past. She discusses how class and gender were represented in these novels, but keeps the tone light – though it’s clearly well-researched, this book never reads like an academic study. A Very British Murder — история о возникновении полиции и развитии детективного жанра: например, автор подобно рассказывает о прототипах героев Диккенса и преступлениях, которые оказали влияние на творчество Хичкока. Some of the history is more interesting than others, but this book was right up my alley. It reminded me of some great mysteries I’ve read over the years and had me thinking of re-reading a few of them, and also reminded me of authors I have yet to try.Lucy Worsley has set out to trace the roots of the British obsession with murder – as consumers, rather than participants. She makes the case that the fascination with murder corresponded to the increasing urbanisation of Britain during the nineteenth century which, because neighbours no longer knew each other as they had done in a more rural age, meant that murders could be much harder to detect. And what could be more thrilling than knowing that a murderer might be on the loose? Combine that with the rise of affordable printed material, such as the Penny Dreadfuls that became available during the Victorian era, and suddenly the commercial potential of murder, real or fictional, was huge. Souden, David; Dolman, Brett; foreword by HRHThePrinceofWales (2008). The Royal Palaces of London. Merrell Publishers. ISBN 978-1858944234. Sitting down after a hard day’s work, slippers on, guard lowered… for the last 200 years murder has been the topic to which readers turn for comfort and relaxation.” Usual UK delivery timescale (excluding custom prints) is between 5 and 7 working days from the date of dispatch. Please allow up to 14 working days for delivery. For custom print delivery pricing and timescales see below.

A very British murder : the story of a national obsession

It’s not deep lit crit, or a totally in depth micro-history, but there’s interesting stuff and it’s entertainingly written. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-10-02 03:00:40 Boxid IA1951713 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier a b c Woods, Judith (13 April 2011). "DrLucyWorsley:'I'mjustanhistorianwhowanderedintoTV' ". Daily Telegraph. Archived from theoriginal on 24 June 2012 . Retrieved 1 April 2013. Author of "Masters of the 'Humdrum' Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961" Spencer, Charles (26 August 2007). "Cavalier:ataleofchivalry,passionandgreathouses,byLucyWorsley". The Independent on Sunday . Retrieved 24 September 2013.In 2019, Worsley presented American History's Biggest Fibs, looking at the nation's founding story and American Revolution, the American Civil War, and the Cold War. In April 2016, Worsley published her debut children's novel, Eliza Rose, about a young noble girl in a Tudor Court. [24] [25] In 2017, Worsley published a biography of JaneAusten titled Jane Austen at Home: A Biography. [26] Lucy Worsley current age 45 years old. Lucy Worsley’s height Unknown & weight Not Available right. Full body measurements, dress & shoe size will be updated soon. Who is Lucy Worsley Dating? urn:lcp:verybritishmurde0000wors:epub:afe7acc4-8ee0-4a5d-9a71-443886c7558f Foldoutcount 0 Identifier verybritishmurde0000wors Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8tc0jh4h Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781849906340

A Very British Murder: The curious story of how crime was

Julian Symons' Bloody Murder remains a valuable source on crime fiction, but it is marred, in my view, by the author's determination to drive home his thesis that Golden Age detective fiction was fatally restricted by artificial conventions (the so-called "rules"), making it inevitably inferior to the "crime fiction" of modern times, with its much-heralded psychological and social realism. And P. D. James' Talking about Detective Fiction, a very brief book of about 45,000 words or so, is more problematic than Bloody Murder as a source for a general history, in my opinion. Worsley's book covers a great deal of ground... it provides an excellent overview of how the consumption of crime became a dominant part of our cultural landscape." -- The Sunday Times James is always an elegant and enjoyable writer, but in Talking she does not really add to what Symons already did and sometimes gives us much less. James' discussion of American mystery writing, for example, would lead an uninformed reader to believe that virtually all American crime writers wrote hard-boiled mysteries, which is far off the mark indeed. In 2016, Worsley presented the three-part documentary Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley in January and Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey in June. [17] In September 2016, she was filming an upcoming series A Very British History for BBC Four. [18] In December she presented and appeared in dramatised accounts of the three-part BBC series Six Wives with Lucy Worsley. In 2017, she presented a three-part series entitled British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, debunking historical views of the WarsoftheRoses, the GloriousRevolution and the BritishoccupationofIndia. [19]Worsley’s book is stuffed with interesting insights into our love of crime, although sometimes the pacing can be a little uneven, no doubt because of its inception as a television programme. A chapter each on Christie and Sayers, but none on Marsh, seems slightly strange. However, as a guilty pleasure or a pleasant pastime, murder removed from reality still thrills us (one in three books sold today is a crime novel), and Worsley captures this bloody love affair very well.” However, by 1939 something had come to seem a little too cosy about elderly ladies solving puzzles in vicarages. Graham Greene, with his insights into the mind of a killer, and James Bond, the swaggering spy, made them seem completely old hat. The old-fashioned detective may dodder on in fiction today, but since the Second World War he or she has been eclipsed by nastier, more violent colleagues in the thriller section. Worsley retells the stories of famous murderers and legendary criminals in delightfully readable language, with the occasional sharp, illuminating comment." -- Literary Review Worsley lives in Southwark [28] by the RiverThames in south London with her husband, architect Mark Hines, [1] whom she married in November 2011. [29] With reference to having children, Worsley once said she has been "educated out of normal reproductive function", [30] but she later said her statement had been "misinterpreted and sounded darker than I'd intended." [31] Part Three, "The Golden Age," was equally well thought out, and Worsley's analysis gave me some welcome new insights about the "dead end" of the interwar detective novel before British genre authors followed their U.S. counterparts into the hard-boiled, noir style of storytelling. On a personal note, Worsley's balanced and insightful analysis helped me finally to articulate why I can read Wilkie Collins or Arthur Conan Doyle all day long, over and over again with relish, while the works of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers leave me cold.