Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Agatha Christie's things.

I was reading through last Saturday's Guardian today (only a week late) when I came upon an interesting article by Kathryn Hughes: Hunger for the Corporeal.

She makes some good points about
"the desire to possess material fragments of people and places that have been important to us."
As she says:
"an object no longer simply embodies its material value; what counts is the narrative in which it becomes embedded."


It put me in mind of this book.

Kathryn Hughes has written a book about Mrs Beeton.