![]() ![]() Self-contained and secretive, Agatha lived in imaginary worlds, her closest companions imaginary friends. She taught herself from her father's library, stocked with complete editions of nineteenth-century novels, and sets of the Art Quarterly and the Cornhill Magazine. Agatha's brother and sister were sent away to school but her own formal education was minimal: dancing, singing, and piano classes, a few untaxing lessons when she was fourteen, various well-intentioned finishing schools in France. ![]() The Miller family and their servants lived comfortably and hospitably at Ashfield, a large villa with extensive gardens, an orchard, conservatories, a tennis court, and croquet lawn, surroundings that were to provide the backdrop to many of Agatha's later stories of easeful middle-class lives shockingly disrupted by murder. ![]()
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