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FREE JOSEPHINE TEY: A LIFE PDF Jennifer Morag Henderson | 420 pages | 16 May 2016 | Sandstone Press Ltd | 9781910985373 | English | Dingwall, United Kingdom Josephine Tey A Very Private Person Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Josephine Tey: A Life Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other Josephine Tey: A Life. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Josephine Tey: a life by Jennifer Morag Henderson. Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh At one point, she had plays on simultaneously in the West End in London and on Broadway, and even wrote for Hollywood - all fr Josephine Tey was the pen-name of Elizabeth MacKintosh At one point, she had plays on simultaneously in the West End in London and on Broadway, and even wrote for Hollywood - all from her home in the north of Scotland. Get A Copy. More Details Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of Josephine Tey: A Life book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Josephine Teyplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Josephine Tey: a life. Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh — the essential exponents of crime fiction which all aficionados of the genre have at least a passing acquaintance with. Readers and critics talk about her books and recommend them to others. And, yet, not much is generally known about Josephine Tey, or rather Elizabeth MacKintosh, because she was a very private person who kept her private affairs strictly separate from her work, and even in that she used several pen names to work in different genres. With all of these smoke and mirrors, it is even more enjoyable to read a biography that does not just regurgitate the little that has been known about MacKintosh but that evidently presents the results of new research and the authors efforts to really dig through the archives and interview the few remaining people who knew MacKintosh. Henderson also provides a wider view into the historical and literary background to MacKintosh's upbringing and the issues that influenced her writing - notably some of the hypocrisy of Inverness society. In Josephine Tey: A Life earlier review of Tey's novel The Man in the Queue, I wondered whether "Tey may actually have tried to dispel some of the stereotypes found in the pulp fiction of her time". Having read this biography, I believe that she indeed struggled with people's assumptions about other people of any difference to Josephine Tey: A Life, and that did use her books to dispel various assumptions. Her upbringing and training instilled in her a love for history and a propensity for researching and questioning accepted facts. Her love for England at a time of the rise of Scottish nationalism, for which her very own home town of Inverness at the centre, caused her to question the importance of national identity. Her friends included people of all walks of life and this together with her disdain for the snobbishness of her neighbours in Inverness, only supported her approach to meet people on the basis of their character, not their background. When I first picked up this biography, I had some concerns about whether Henderson, herself an Invernessian, would put forward a certain bias of town pride, but this concern was quickly abandoned. Henderson's description and analysis of the existing sources about MacKintosh, her writing, and the historical situation during MacKintosh's life quickly proved a fair and Josephine Tey: A Life assessment. And, let me say this again, Henderson's efforts Josephine Tey: A Life bringing up primary sources to back up her descriptions and statements about MacKintosh, has been really impressive. This was a brick of a book and I loved every page, and I am now even more eager than before to investigate the works Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Gordon Daviot aka Josephine Tey. Nov 24, Nancy Oakes rated it it was amazing. The hardcover edition is not Josephine Tey: A Life available in the US, but never fear -- there is an e-book available for anyone who wants to read this book. Josephine Tey: A Life the time I said no because frankly I detest e-books, so I bought my copy. But without her, I may have 2 things: 1 this isbn is for the UK version which I picked up at Book Depository. But without her, Josephine Tey: A Life may have not known for some time that this book even existed. So, thanks, Keara!! I have posted about this book at my online reading journal, so if you want the whole enchilada written strictly from the pov of an avid Tey fan, click on this link. The brief details on her book jackets reveal that Tey was born Elizabeth MacKintosh and that she also enjoyed success under another pseudonym -- Gordon Daviot, author of the West End hit Richard of Bordeaux, the springboard that launched John Gielgud to stardom. Sometimes they mention that she was a native of Inverness Josephine Tey: A Life lived most of her life there. But until now, Josephine Tey was herself the greatest mystery at the heart of her fiction. Henderson has done an invaluable service to Tey fans everywhere through her meticulous research: as McDermid reveals, Henderson has been through Tey's family papers, as well as material that's never been published before to produce this simply amazing biography that "gives us the chance to understand what shaped Beth MacKintosh into the writer she became. Henderson has most Josephine Tey: A Life and most thoroughly accomplished what she set out to do here. Tey was not just an amazing novelist as most readers of her work Josephine Tey: A Life myself consider herbut also a well-established, well-respected playwright whose performances featured such actors as John Josephine Tey: A Life she was also a screenwriter which I did not knowa devoted daughter who helped take care of the family business and then her father and their home when he became very ill, and through it all, she continuously shunned the limelight, preferring her private life over her public one. Sterling, superb, and all manner of superlatives -- this book is a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in Josephine Tey. She is one of my all-time favorite mystery novelists, but as Henderson illustrates here, her career and her life go well beyond just that of a few books. Definitely and most highly recommended. View all 7 comments. Aug 14, Sharon Barrow Wilfong rated it it was amazing. There is very little known about Josephine Tey, but Henderson does a good job gathering what facts are available and intertwining them with an analysis of her work, both as a playwright, historian and mystery writer. While Tey is fascinating, this book is strange. Biography is a more difficult genre than people think, it has its own expectations and conventions. Henderson isn't an experienced biographer, and it shows in little ways, most especially in her control of the material. A biography is a life story told, generally, in order, and if it's not in chronological order there should be thematic reasons for it not to be. Josephine Tey: A Life all right to jump ahead, but it shouldn't be unclear when you do. You can assume t While Tey is fascinating, this book is strange. You can assume the reader knows something about the subject -- they picked the book up, didn't they -- but you can't assume they know everything, or why are they reading the book? With a literary subject, you need to Josephine Tey: A Life the works, and you have to do it the right amount, neither too much or too little. If you have made a discovery, don't puff it off too much too early -- when this book said it had found an entirely new pseudonym and talked about it Josephine Tey: A Life if it was equivalent to the Tey and Daviot names, I was expecting more than one play. A good biography will make the reader feel they know the subject. This one made me feel I knew more facts about Tey, but left her as opaque as ever. I'm not sorry I read it, but it's not a good biography and I can't recommend it Josephine Tey: A Life anyone but Tey fanatics, which is a pity. View 1 comment. Shelves: read-for-blog. Embarrassing thing to admit - I have never read a Josephine Tey book. I ordered a second-hand book containing three of her novels, not expecting to get through this pretty large book so quickly, but as of finishing it, I'm still awaiting their arrival. However, I did enjoy the descriptions of "Old Inverness" before it became, at one point, the fastest growing city in Europe. I have Josephine Tey: A Life been a fan of the Josephine Tey: A Life Tey crime novels and know that the author real name Elizabeth MacKintosh has always been described as 'enigmatic', 'reserved' and 'private', meaning that no-one knows much about her. This biography by Jennifer Morag Henderson is the first that really delves into her life to uncover her family background, her schooling, how she began writing, her relationships and her personality through diaries, documents, manuscripts, family papers and interviews.

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