Josephine Tey (1896–1952)
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Four, Five & Six by Tey: The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles (1958) 143 Exemplare
The Josephine Tey Collection: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be… (2023) 9 Exemplare
Plays 1 : The little dry thorn, Valerius Dickson 2 Exemplare
Remember Caesar 2 Exemplare
Leith Sands 1 Exemplar
The Staff-Room 1 Exemplar
The Expensive Halo 1 Exemplar
Leith sands, and other short plays 1 Exemplar
Plays 3 1 Exemplar
Plays 2 1 Exemplar
The Pen of My Aunt 1 Exemplar
Valerius (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 Exemplar
Sweet Coz 1 Exemplar
Three Mrs. Madderleys 1 Exemplar
The Mother of Masé 1 Exemplar
Ultimate Mystery Collection 1 Exemplar
Barnharrow 1 Exemplar
Clarion Call 1 Exemplar
Reckoning 1 Exemplar
Sara 1 Exemplar
Rahab 1 Exemplar
Mrs Fry Has a Visitor 1 Exemplar
Lady Charing Is Cross 1 Exemplar
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Great Mystery Books, 10 Volumes (Journey into Fear, The 39 Steps, And Then There Were None, Maltese Falcon, The Nine… (1967) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Brat Farrar | The Brading Collection | The Bride Regrets | Make Haste to Live (1950) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Tey, Josephine
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Mackintosh, Elizabeth
- Andere Namen
- Daviot, Gordon
- Geburtstag
- 1896-07-25
- Todestag
- 1952-02-13
- Begräbnisort
- verbrannt, Asche zerstreut
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- UK
- Land (für Karte)
- Scotland, UK
- Geburtsort
- Inverness, Schottland, UK
- Sterbeort
- London, England, UK
- Todesursache
- liver cancer
- Wohnorte
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918) - Berufe
- teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author - Organisationen
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
- Agent
- Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
- Kurzbiographie
- 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 in The Green Dragon (Juli 2023)
NOVEMBER READ - NO SPOILERS - Daughter of Time in The Green Dragon (November 2014)
Josephine Tey in British & Irish Crime Fiction (April 2014)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoilers) in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (April 2010)
***Group Read: Brat Farrar (Spoiler-free) in 75 Books Challenge for 2010 (März 2010)
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The Daughter of Time von Josephine Tey
A brilliant book about a historical mystery, and an even more brilliant book about "Truth - the daughter of time". What a great idea to have a Scotland Yard detective, who can't leave his hospital bed, "investigate" a murder that was committed 400 years ago. What an elegant entry to the story, to have Alan Grant - a man with great interest in faces - distract himself over a set of portraits, only to get hooked by the face of a man who looks much too nice to belong to a hunchbacked monster that is alleged of having killed his nephews (the princes in the tower). On the surface, this novel is an entertaining discourse about King Richard III and his time. All set in a hospital room, with nurses, friends and a doctor taking turns in visiting the patient, lending him history books, discussing school history or bringing in news from recent findings from the British Museum, the scenes and dialogues are almost like a theatre play (and indeed, Grant's wonderful friend Marta is a theatre actress, and so is the lover of his "research assistant" Carradine). Below the surface - behind the stories about Richard III - the main subject of the book is "historical truth" and how it is shaped, distorted and consolidated by people. Once Grant and Carradine have found out the truth, they also find out that this truth had been known (and written down) long before they re-discovered it. As yet, this truth had left little trace in the common stories about the hunchbacked monster Richard III. A key sentence is when Grant suggests to Carradine that if he can't be the first to unveil the truth, he could fight for truth to become the common story: "If you can't be a pioneer, what's wrong with leading a crusade?" (p.179).… (mehr)
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