This study shows how she sought to reconcile her attachment to the Victorian past with her recognition of a new society that undermined established order and in doing so gave more opportunities to women, confused class-boundaries, extended tolerance, allowed the cult of pleasure and self-assertion and revealed the ambiguities of respectability. | Agatha Christie by R. a. York, Paperback | Indigo Chapters | Agatha Christie by R.a. York, Paperback | Indigo Chapters