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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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Four, Five & Six by Tey: The Daughter of Time, The Singing Sands, A Shilling for Candles (1958) 143 exemplaren
The Josephine Tey Collection: The Man in the Queue / A Shilling for Candles / The Franchise Affair / To Love and Be… (2023) 8 exemplaren
Plays 1 : The little dry thorn, Valerius Dickson 2 exemplaren
Remember Caesar 2 exemplaren
Leith Sands 1 exemplaar
The Staff-Room 1 exemplaar
The Expensive Halo 1 exemplaar
Leith sands, and other short plays 1 exemplaar
Plays 3 1 exemplaar
Plays 2 1 exemplaar
The Little Dry Thorn (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 exemplaar
The Pen of My Aunt 1 exemplaar
Valerius (in Plays by Gordon Daviot) 1 exemplaar
Sweet Coz 1 exemplaar
Three Mrs. Madderleys 1 exemplaar
Collected Works: Inspector Alan Grant Novels & Other Detective Tales: The Daughter of Time, The Franchise… 1 exemplaar
The Mother of Masé 1 exemplaar
Ultimate Mystery Collection 1 exemplaar
Barnharrow 1 exemplaar
Clarion Call 1 exemplaar
Reckoning 1 exemplaar
Sara 1 exemplaar
Rahab 1 exemplaar
Mrs Fry Has a Visitor 1 exemplaar
Lady Charing Is Cross 1 exemplaar
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Brat Farrar | The Brading Collection | The Bride Regrets | Make Haste to Live (1950) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Mackintosh, Elizabeth
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Daviot, Gordon
Tey, Josephine - Geboortedatum
- 1896-07-25
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1952-02-13
- Graflocatie
- cremated, ashes scattered
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Scotland, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Inverness, Scotland, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- liver cancer
- Woonplaatsen
- Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Opleiding
- Royal Academy
Anstey Physical Training College (1915-1918) - Beroepen
- teacher
crime writer
novelist
playwright
author - Organisaties
- Voluntary Aid Detachment
- Agent
- Georgia Glover (David Higham Associates) - estate
- Korte biografie
- 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 (maart 2010)
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