Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
Auteur van The Circular Staircase
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Mary Roberts Rinehart was born in the City of Allegheny, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1876. While attending Allegheny High School, she received $1 each for three short stories from a Pittsburgh newspaper. After receiving inspiration from a town doctor who happened to be a woman, she developed a toon meer curiosity for medicine. She went on to study nursing at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital. After graduating in 1896, she began her writing career. The first of her many mystery stories, The Circular Staircase (1908), established her as a leading writer of the genre; Rinehart and Avery Hopwood successfully dramatized the novel as The Bat (1920). Her other mystery novels include The Man in Lower Ten (1909), The Case of Jennie Brice (1914), The Red Lamp (1925), The Door (1930), The Yellow Room (1945), and The Swimming Pool (1952). Stories about Tish, a self-reliant spinster, first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and were collected into The Best of Tish (1955). She wrote more than 50 books, eight plays, hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Three of her plays were running on Broadway at one time. During World War I, she was the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front. She died September 22, 1958 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Officiële naam
- Roberts, Mary Ella (born)
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Roberts, Mary R.
- Geboortedatum
- 1876-08-12
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1958-09-22
- Graflocatie
- Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New York, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Washington, D.C., USA
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses (1896)
- Beroepen
- playwright
mystery novelist
war correspondent
travel writer
short story writer - Relaties
- Rinehart, Stanley Marshall, Jr. (son)
Rinehart, Alan Gillespie (son)
Rinehart, Frederick Roberts (son) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Honorary Doctorate (Literature | George Washington University | 1923)
Mystery Writers of America Special Award (1954) - Korte biografie
- Mary Roberts Rinehart was a best-selling mystery writer of the "Golden Age" who was as well-known (if not better known) than Agatha Christie, to whom she's often compared. Critics praised the careful plotting of her novels. She's credited with originating the "had-I-but-known" literary school of mystery writing. Typically, the narrator digresses over the things she might have done to prevent the novel’s numerous murders, had she only been able to see the dire consequences of her inaction or failure to report information to the police. Dorothy B. Hughes, crime critic and novelist, says Rinehart "has been and continues to be the most important American woman mystery writer." She was born Mary Ella Roberts in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh since 1907. She attended public schools and graduated at the age of 16, then enrolling at the Pittsburgh Training School for Nurses at Homeopathic Hospital, where she graduated in 1896. She married Stanley Marshall Rinehart, a physician with whom she had four children. During the stock market crash of 1903, Rinehart and her husband lost their savings, and this spurred her efforts at writing to earn income. In 1907, she wrote The Circular Staircase, the novel that launched her to national fame. She wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies. Her regular contributions to the Saturday Evening Post were immensely popular and helped the magazine mold American middle-class taste and manners. She often pursued adventure, including taking a job as the first woman war correspondent at the Belgian front during World War I. While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. She also coined the famous phrase, "The butler did it." (retrieved from Amazon 1/30/2011).
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Livonia is brimming with political instability and conspiracy. There are those who want to do away with the monarchy when the current king dies, and the only thing in their way is the young prince. The prince's older cousin, Princess Hedwig is to be married to the king of neighbouring Karnia, the traditional enemy of Livonia, in the hopes of securing a commercial treaty and peaceful coexistence, but she is in love with a young lieutenant who is attached to the Crown Prince’s suite.
Prince Otto is a nice kid, but he has a rather joyless life, filled with safety measures, serious governesses, tutors and aunts, and lacking any friends of his same age. We follow these and other characters, both in the palace and among the common people, as the king's health deteriorates and the future of the kingdom comes to a head.
When one thinks of Ruritanian romances one thinks of love affairs and swashbuckling adventures, and there is a fair amount of that. No sword fights, though. The book was written in 1917 and there are automobiles and guns. Even though the young prince is one of the viewpoint characters, and there's also another child character, an American boy whose father manages the newly-built scenic railroad in the main park of the capital city, this is written for adults, and the characters have their own complex psychology and motivations. Some of the villains, at least the ones we get to know, are not completely evil, but their actions are a result of their own history and feelings.
I thought the book might have been shortened a little bit without being the worse for it, but I was always entertained by this old-fashioned story. I cared for the fate of the characters and even shed a tear or two. It is quite well-written, in the style of other Ruritanian romances like The Prisoner of Zenda, but perhaps this one is more thoughtful and less action-oriented.
4.5 stars, rounded up.… (meer)