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Josephine Tey (1896–1952)

Autor/a de The Daughter of Time

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Josephine Tey is a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh. She was born in 1896 in Inverness and died in 1952. She is a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught mostra'n més physical training at various schools in England and Scotland, but in 1926 she had to return to Inverness to care for her invalid father. There she began her career as a writer. In five of the mystery novels, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes. In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was 11th on the same list of 100 books. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time (1951) 5,889 exemplars
The Franchise Affair (1948) 2,125 exemplars
Brat Farrar (1949) 1,877 exemplars
The Man in the Queue (1929) 1,655 exemplars
The Singing Sands (1952) 1,457 exemplars
Miss Pym Disposes (1946) 1,405 exemplars
A Shilling for Candles (1936) 1,341 exemplars
To Love and Be Wise (1950) 1,288 exemplars
The Privateer (1952) 80 exemplars
The Expensive Halo (1931) 61 exemplars
A Cup of Tey (1979) 45 exemplars
Kif: An Unvarnished History (1929) 39 exemplars
Richard of Bordeaux (1933) 31 exemplars
Claverhouse (1937) 8 exemplars
Plays (1953) 5 exemplars
Dickon (1966) 4 exemplars
Remember Caesar 2 exemplars
Leith Sands 1 exemplars
The Staff-Room 1 exemplars
Plays 3 1 exemplars
Plays 2 1 exemplars
The Pen of My Aunt 1 exemplars
Sweet Coz 1 exemplars
The Mother of Masé 1 exemplars
Barnharrow 1 exemplars
Clarion Call 1 exemplars
Reckoning 1 exemplars
Sara 1 exemplars
Rahab 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Ten Great Mysteries (1959) — Col·laborador — 101 exemplars
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2022) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
Young and Innocent [1937 film] (1937) — Based on — 50 exemplars
Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2023) — Col·laborador — 44 exemplars
Great Stories of Mystery and Suspense 1974 Volume 2 (1974) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Classic Crime 5 Book Gift Set (1988) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Short Plays for Reading and Acting (1970) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Mackintosh, Elizabeth
Altres noms
Daviot, Gordon
Tey, Josephine
Data de naixement
1896-07-25
Data de defunció
1952-02-13
Lloc d'enterrament
cremated, ashes scattered
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
UK
País (per posar en el mapa)
Scotland, UK
Lloc de naixement
Inverness, Scotland, UK
Lloc de defunció
London, England, UK
Causa de la mort
liver cancer
Llocs de residència
Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
Educació
Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918)
Professions
teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author
Organitzacions
Voluntary Aid Detachment
Agent
Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
Biografia breu
Josephine Tey, birth name Elizabeth Mackintosh, was a Scottish-born novelist and playwright. She wrote some of the most acclaimed mysteries in the English language and her books, including the Alan Grant series, are still popular today. She attended the Anstey Physical Training College in Birmingham, England and became a physical education instructor before publishing her first short fiction in periodicals such as the English Review. Her first novel appeared under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot in 1929. Her best known work, The Daughter of Time (1951), is still widely admired not just as a defense of Richard III of England but also as a study of the nature and practice of history writing itself.

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NOVEMBER Read - SPOILERS THREAD - Daughter of Time a The Green Dragon (juliol 2023)
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***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoilers) a 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (abril 2010)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoiler-free) a 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (març 2010)

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Estadístiques

Obres
50
També de
10
Membres
17,774
Popularitat
#1,239
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
645
ISBN
442
Llengües
16
Preferit
89

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