Agatha Christie Fun Facts

Happy Tuesday!

 Today I decided to do another fun facts about an author post, since I have done one in a while. Today I am going to be providing fun facts about Agatha Christie, who is known to be one of the best mystery writers. Not a lot of people know a lot about Agatha Christie, and I hope that some of the facts I provide today will help people understand her and read more of her books.

Let's get this list party started!

• The first novel she ever written she wrote on a dare from her sister.
• Her character Hercule Poirot was based on a strange man she saw one day, when he was boarding a bus.
• She once disappeared for 10 days without telling anyone where she was going. Turns out she just went to a spa to have some time away from her relationship.
• She loved to surf with her husband.
• She didn't like taking author photos, because she didn't want to be recognized in public.
• You can actually rent her home for $500 a night.
• She was educated at home by her mother and her governess.
• She is the only female dramatist ever to have had three plays running simultaneously in London’s West End.
• In 1922 she traveled around the world.
• She was a huge dog lover.
• When her male detective Hercule Poirot "died" he was given a full page obituary in the New York Times.
• Green was her favorite color.
• On the day she died the West End theaters dimmed their lights for one hour.
• For many years she was the President of the local amateur drama society in Wallingford.
•  In 1931 she read one of her own stories on BBC radio.
• She was the first crime writer to have 100,000 copies of ten of her titles published by Penguin on the same day in 1948 - A Penguin Million.

I hope that some of these facts about Agatha Christie helped interest you in her as an author. I have read a couple of her books and couldn't put them down, because with her writing you don't know who the murderer is until the very end when she wants the reader to know the truth, and how the murder was committed.

References:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/85723/15-mysterious-facts-about-agatha-christie
https://www.agathachristie.com/about-christie/christie-experts/john-curran-75-facts-about-christie

William Shakespeare Fun Facts

Hello again!

 Today I wanted to keep the fun facts about different authors going, and decided to go with William Shakespeare. Yes I am aware he technically didn't write books, but he is known for some of the best plays that we have in existence, and he is considered an author, well a playwright. Let's get started on learning more about Shakespeare.

• Shakespeare is widely considered the world’s greatest dramatist
• He wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets
• He married Anne Hathaway when he was only 18 years old
• He acted in many of his plays performances
• His acting company, The Lord Chamberlain's Men, built the Globe theater for their performances in 1599
• Before Shakespeare, the English language was much less codified with no official dictionary and many variations on spelling
• Shakespeare has given many memorable phrases to the English language, such as “wild goose chase”, “foregone conclusion” “in a pickle"
• Macbeth was often unpopular for its reference to witches which created fear in the middle ages. There remains a long theater superstition of saying aloud the name ‘Macbeth’
• When he died he only left his wife Anne a bed
• There is a belief that a curse lays on Shakespeare's grave for anyone who moves his bones
• Shakespeare introduced almost 3,000 words to the English
• He references suicide 13 times in his plays, mainly by characters dying by their own hand
• Nobody can for certain tell when exactly his birthday is
• They never did figure out what caused him to die
• He disappeared from the history books between 1585 and 1592. No one can find any trace of what he was doing during this time
• Shakespeare had seven siblings

I hope you learned something new about William Shakespeare that you didn't know before fellow readers!

Facts found at the following websites:

https://www.biographyonline.net/poets/facts-shakespeare.html

https://www.williamshakespeare.net/facts.jsp

Fun Facts about Charlotte Bronte

Hey Readers!

 Today I wanted to showcase some more fun facts about another one of my favorite authors, Charlotte Bronte. She is the author of the amazing Jane Eyre, as well as other amazing works. When I read Jane Eyre, I fell in love with the story telling and of course the brooding Mr. Rochester. I honestly don't know a lot about Charlotte's life, and wanted to find some facts to share with you today, so we can all learn about this amazing author together.

• She was born on April 21, 1816
• She had five siblings
• She was able to see and read better in the dark, than she was in the light
• She was a teacher for a time, but actually despised it
• She was only about four and a half feet tall
• The school in Jane Eyre is based on her and her sisters experiences while in a school just like it
• If she was alive today she would be 201 years old
• Her sisters wanted her to make the character of Jane Eyre beautiful, thinking the public wouldn't embrace a plain looking heroine, however she refused to change Jane's appearance
• She was proposed to four different times, and turned down every single one of them
• She married Arthur Nicholls, and eight months after her wedding 
• She wrote stories with her siblings based on her brother Bramwell's toy soldiers
• She outlived her parents and her siblings
• She wrote a book of poetry with her sisters Anne and Emily
• When she published Jane Eyre under the name Currer Bell, it was an instant success
• She spoke with an Irish accent
• Her father was slightly paranoid and carried a pistol everywhere

There are a lot more intersting facts about Charlotte Bronte if you would like to know more, all you have to do is Google. The sites were I found the above facts can be found at:

http://www.annebronte.org/2017/03/19/10-fascinating-facts-about-charlotte-bronte/

https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/20-things-you-probably-didn-t-know-about-charlotte-bront%C3%AB/

https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/five-interesting-facts-about-charlotte-bronte

https://www.cbc.ca/books/20-fascinating-facts-about-charlotte-bront%C3%AB-on-her-200th-birthday-1.4095025

http://tonsoffacts.com/30-awesome-and-interesting-facts-about-charlotte-bronte/

https://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-bront-11919959

Jane Austen Fun Facts

Hello Guys!

  So here is the first post of something new I am going to try with my blog. Today I am going to provide some fun facts about my favorite author Jane Austen. Jane Austen lived in a time where woman were only supposed to take care of the home, and no one would publish a book that was written by a woman. Austen is the author of several books that include: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abby, and short stories that she didn't get to finish before her death. I have compiled a list of fun facts and wanted to share them with you.

• She never got married, however she did become engaged one time, but called it off the next day
• There are 14 kisses in Jane Austen's novels
• She was the first writer to use the phrase "dinner party"
• She also wrote poetry and was always writing when she was 12 up to her death at 41
• Her chores included: Breakfast maker, Tea maker, Sugar keeper, and wine keeper
• There was only one man who she truly loved, which was Tom Lefroy, and he broke her heart (this can also be seen in the movie "Becoming Jane")
• She loved dancing
• After her novels ended, she would dream of what became of her characters
• One of her royal relatives was Mary, Queen of Scots, fourth cousin, seven times removed
• Her sister Cassandra and her were very close, Cassandra never married eith

I wanted to share one of the poems that Jane wrote with you as well:

 Lines Written By Jane Austen For The Amusement Of A Niece- On the marriage of Frank Austen and Mary Gibson, July 1806

"See they come, post haste from Thanet,

Lovely couple, side by side;

They've left behind them Richard Kennet

With the Parents of the Bride!"

I found the above information using the following resources:

https://www.biography.com/news/jane-austen-biography-facts

http://www.10-facts-about.com/Jane-Austen/id/1380

Book:

The List Lover's Guide To Jane Austen by Joan Strasbaugh