Dear Pene At present, the edition of the Sketch with the first Miss Marple story in it is on display at the British Library in London, in a small exhibition (26 cases, one for each letter of the alphabet). The first is of course A for Agatha. The illustration shows a smiling, rather sharp lady in her sixties, knitting, but unfortunately, she just looks as though she has a flimsy white scarf round her neck, certainly the artist did not bother drawing anything that looked at all like lace, let alone Mechlin, and skipped the cap and mittens. Younger than I had envisioned her as being, but unlike Poirot, she grew older in the books as the years passed rather than younger, as Poirot did! If you're passing and have an interest in detective fiction, well worth half an hour or so, but nothing of lace interest, I'm afraid. [email protected] Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:29:46 +0200 From: pene piip <[email protected]> Subject: [lace] Lace in Literature
I don't remember any actress playing Miss Marple wearing lace, but according this quote I found, she did. "Miss Marple made her first appearance in The Tuesday Night Club <http://agathachristie.com/story-explorer/stories/the-tuesday-night-club/> - -- a short story published in /The Sketch/ magazine in 1926. Here she is described as a Victorian relic of a bygone era, with a black brocade dress, very much pinched in around the waist. "Mechlin lace was arranged in a cascade down the front of the bodice. She had on black lace mittens, and a black lace cap surmounted the piled up masses of her snowy hair." She appears in a total of 12 novels and 20 short stories." This story is one of 13 short stories published as collection under "The Thirteen Problems". - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
