It was after the book was in print that the couple moved to Italy where Percy preceded to cheat on Mary and they lost another two children before finally giving birth to a son who survived. However, things went array when Percy died in a boating accident by drowning while at sea with a friend of his. He left behind Mary who was twenty-four and a son. Mary spent most of her life trying to promote her husband’s work while caring for their child. All the while, fighting with her husband’s father because he disliked his son’s lifestyle. She later died of brain cancer at the age of fifty-three on February 1,1851. She was buried with the cremated heart of her husband (Biography.com Editors). As time passed, she became known as the mother of science …show more content…
She was the first woman to break into the mystery genre. Agatha Christie was born on September 15, 1890 in England. Her education was considered unique because her father was the one to handle most of her home schooling. While her mother held the belief that Agatha should not learn to read until she was eight-years-old. However, this did not stop the little girl from teaching herself by the time she was five-years-old. She also began to write poems as child. Slowly developing her creative side while reading the different author’s books her parents kept in their home. Her French was learned while spending some time in France when she was five years old. She also lost her father at the age of eleven, leaving her mother and her to figure out what to do. Yet, Agatha stepped into the role of being her mother’s companion without a signal question (About Agatha …show more content…
Then, one night after being told that her husband was seeing another woman, Agatha Christie went missing one night in December (About Agatha Christie). Her car was found empty in front of a beauty shop on December 3,1926. This left people to believe her husband Archie had done something to harm the author (Agatha Christie’s Disappearance). The man hunt for Agatha was big. They even used airplanes to search the ground from the sky. She was missing for eleven days and was found using a different name at the spa motel in Harrogate. She did not seem able to recognize anyone around her including her husband Archie (Thrope). This was the same year that her mother had passed away, leaving Agatha suffering with grief. She never spoke of her time that she was missing in the years that followed her reappearance (Biography.com Editors). She spent her time in London and getting the help she needed while her husband was with the woman he was seeing. She finally divorced her husband Archie in 1928 after realizing he was never coming back to her and proceeded to raise her daughter. She had come up with her own rule of writing two to three books a year sometime after she had regained her memory and began writing once more. She also traveled around and ended up meeting her