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With audiences as far reaching as South America, Indonesia and India, English with Lucy videos vary from lessons about grammar to vocabulary, pronunciation and even British culture.

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This channel was started by Lucy Earl in January 2016, whilst in her final year at university, with a £500 business loan from her father. She started uploading videos of her teaching English, and from then, started gaining recognition. In 2017, the YouTube channel has amassed almost 350,000 subscribers, more than 12 million views, and has become Ms Earl's full-time job from then. It took about eight months for her to make the decision to go full-time. After then, she received a million subscribers in 2018. As of October 2021, she has amassed almost 7 million subscribers.

• " Anyone can access anything... We don't need a teacher, we can educate ourselves. "
• " Ninety-nine per cent of what you need to learn is already there somewhere for you, you just need to find it. "

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• 2,000,000 subscrbers: June 9, 2019 [2]

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• ↑ Woohoo! 2 million! 🥂 a great birthday present! . Lucy Bella Simkins - Twitter (June 9, 2019).
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Agatha Christie’s Latest Biographer Plumbs a Life of Mystery

In “Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman,” Lucy Worsley revisits the weird story of one of the 20th century’s most popular and enduring authors.

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AGATHA CHRISTIE An Elusive Woman By Lucy Worsley 415 pages. Pegasus Crime. $29.95.

Agatha Christie’s best books have crisp dialogue and high-velocity plots. The bad ones have a Mad Libs quality: feeble prose studded with blank spots into which you can picture the prolific Christie plugging a random “BODY PART” or “WEAPON.” In a 1971 study of English crime fiction, Colin Watson snickered that Christie “seems to have been well aware that intelligence and readership-potential are quite unrelated.”

Watson’s barb was unfair. Few readers turn to detective novels for complex cerebral rewards. Detective novels are games, and require a different method of evaluation (and construction) than works of capital-L Literature. Christie understood this. As with any game-player, an author can be accused of not playing fair , and Christie’s finest novels, like “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” tiptoe deliciously close to the cheating line without crossing it. The goal is to leave a reader thwarted and thrilled, not stumped and resentful.

There have been at least a dozen books devoted to Christie in the past two decades, and Lucy Worsley’s “Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman” is a pleasant but inessential addition to the stack. Fans will admire Worsley’s identification of real-life people, places and phrases that Christie upcycled into her fiction. They will delight in seeing photographs of the author surfing in Hawaii, or learning that her favorite drink was a glass of neat cream. (“Cream, neat” should be an acceptable order at a bar. If we work together, maybe we can make it happen.)

But the book also contains a great deal of padding — perhaps because the terrain has been so thoroughly mapped before — and an unsubtle dose of moralizing. A line in the preface sets an ominous tone, warning that Christie’s work “contains views on race and class that are unacceptable today” — a common refrain in recent biographies but totally unnecessary for readers whose knowledge of history extends more than five minutes.

Worsley moves through Christie’s childhood at a brisk pace. Her birth year: 1890. Location: Southwest England. Mother: creative, enigmatic. Father: blessed with a decent inheritance but cursed with a shopping addiction. Siblings: two. Home: sprawling villa with a view of the sea. Education: spotty.

In 1914 Christie married a handsome pilot named Archie and, while he was at war, worked in the wards and the pharmacy of an auxiliary hospital. During work lulls she filled notebooks with story ideas and lists of poisons. In 1919 she gave birth to a daughter, Rosalind. That same year, a publisher invited Christie for a meeting after reviewing the manuscript that would become her first book, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles.”

Along with demonstrating Christie’s gifts for puzzle-crafting and dialogue, “Styles” brought Hercule Poirot into the world. Poirot and Jane Marple, who debuted in late 1927, are two of the most indelible characters ever to grace detective fiction. Observing the similarities between these two offers a glimpse of Christie’s unique project.

Both Poirot and Marple are unglamorous, unmarried and without children. Their strengths are rationality, competence and a lack of squeamishness. The Belgian dandy and the elderly knitter are perpetually underestimated — a social penalty they convert into a deadly weapon. Most important for Christie’s audience, neither Poirot nor Marple are prodigies of technique, which renders them easy stand-ins for the reader. In Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Sherlock Holmes tested blood, analyzed soil and published a monograph on footprint analysis. If Poirot and Marple issued monographs, they’d be on mustache husbandry and fiber crafts.

Christie’s home life sputtered at approximately the rate her career took off. She seems to have had a take-it-or-leave-it attitude to motherhood, ditching Rosalind for months at a stretch and neglecting to answer the unhappy girl’s letters. Later Christie would describe Rosalind as playing “the valuable role in life of eternally trying to discourage me without success.” Ouch.

Worsley takes a charitable view of the relationship. “Would all this make Agatha that endlessly satisfying target to aim at, the ‘bad mother’? Of course not, for there is no such thing as a ‘bad mother.’” (Berthe Bovary would like a word!)

In 1926, Archie dumped Christie for a hot young golfer named Nancy, which may have been the precipitating event of the author’s notorious 11-day disappearance. After falling into an Archie-induced depression, Christie went for a drive. There was a car crash. The crash may or may not have been a suicide attempt; all we know is that Christie rolled her vehicle down a hill and into a hedge. She then made her way to a spa hotel and registered under the false name of Teresa Neele. (“Neele” was Nancy the golfer’s last name.)

It seems clear, from all available accounts, that Christie lapsed into a fugue of grief after Archie’s betrayal. But elements of her behavior also suggest a kind of psychotic break. During her hotel stay, she placed a newspaper ad requesting that “FRIENDS and RELATIVES of TERESA NEELE, late of South Africa, please COMMUNICATE.” What to make of that?

Equally disconcerting was what occurred toward the end of the incident. On a Sunday evening, two musicians from the hotel band informed local police that one of the guests looked an awful lot like a certain missing celebrity author. The police contacted Archie, who boarded a train toward the hotel. When he arrived, Christie introduced him to guests as her brother . Whatever the true circumstances of Christie’s severance with reality, the media had a field day. Her book sales shot up.

Worsley’s timeline of the disappearance is admirably scrupulous, but the sheer weirdness of the events can’t be brushed away with phrases like “veiled plea for help” (to explain Christie’s bizarre newspaper ad) or “coping mechanism” (to explain the introduction of Archie as her brother).

In a biographer you want someone who finds her subject immensely but not indiscriminately fascinating, and Worsley doesn’t quite clear that bar. The second half of the book is padded with tedious information. Do we need quotations from a letter written by Christie’s second husband to his mother as a teenager, years before he met the subject of this biography? Or a dispatch from Christie about buying furniture on sale?

Meanwhile, the author’s craft is only glancingly studied. We learn what Christie did but not how she did it. In Worsley’s telling, best sellers emerge as suddenly and effortlessly as sneezes. The book makes a bubbly supplement for a reader with prior interest in Agatha Christie, but it doesn’t explain how she became, by some accounts, the most widely read novelist who ever lived. Another unsolved mystery for the ages.

Molly Young is a book critic for The Times, a contributing writer to The Times Magazine and the author of the newsletter Read Like the Wind . She was previously the book critic for New York magazine. More about Molly Young

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Lucy English

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Lucy English was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in England.

She studied English and American Literature at the University of East Anglia, and later obtained an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. 

She has published three novels: Selfish People (1998), set in contemporary Bristol; Children of Light (1999); and Our Dancing Days (2000), set in a Suffolk commune in the 1970s.

She is best known as a performance poet, first winning the Bristol Poetry Slam in 1996, and going on to tour worldwide, performing her poetry at several international festivals including the Austin International Poetry Festival, and Wordfest, at Calgary in Canada. Her poetry has also been published in a variety of anthologies.

In 2003 she co-ordinated the International Conference in the writing and practice of performance poetry at Bath Spa University, and in 2006 was artistic director of Apples and Snakes Poetry Tour, Exposed . In 2007, she was a finalist in the first BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam.

Lucy English is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College, and will be Royal Literature Fellow at the University of Cardiff Institute during 2007-08.

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I write because I love making up stories. Even when I was a child I made up stories. All my dolls had histories and were related to each other in some way. For me, being a writer is a grown-up, acceptable way of playing with dolls. I have also found that writing is less well-behaved than dolls, and writing doesn’t do what it is told and is often completely disobedient. This is a good thing.  Writing is me acknowledging my inner chaos and exploring it. The result is organised but the process isn’t. I like that.

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Lucy Brown (born 13 February 1979) is an English actress best known for dual roles in the TV series Primeval .

Lucy Brown was born in Crawley , Sussex, but grew up in Cambridgeshire . She is the daughter of Christopher Brown and Helen Burleigh and has a younger brother named Mark. She went to King's College Prep School in Cambridge and then on to Oundle School in Northamptonshire which she left to attend Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge. She then went on to graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London. In December 2007, she was declared "Most Beautiful English Actress of the Year" by a panel of 104 actors. [1] [2]

Acting career

Her first job was in a commercial for the soap brand Lux where she appeared with Gisele Bündchen . She has appeared in Sharpe's Challenge , Malice Aforethought , North and South with Richard Armitage , Whatever Love Means , and in the dual roles of Claudia Brown and Jenny Lewis in the ITV1 science-fiction television series Primeval (2007–11). After leaving Primeval , she played a minor role in NBC 's The Philanthropist . In 2010, she appeared in Bonded By Blood and Frost opposite Dean Cain . Brown returned to Primeval for Series 4 (as Jenny Lewis). [3]

Brown also frequently takes part in live events billed as Word Theatre . [4] She has performed for them in Los Angeles and London. She also reads for audio books.

In 2012, she said revealed that she and Olivia Poulet were currently writing a comedy drama. [5] In 2014, she appeared in the television drama The Village , cast as Harriet Kilmartin.

Personal life

Brown lives in London. [6] She married actor Adam Rayner on 31 December 2015. [7] [8] They have a son and daughter together. [7]

Filmography

• [2] Aberdeen Gazette, 2007. "I went dancing with Wicked West End cast" 18 February 2007. . Retrieved 4 March 2007.
• [3] " 'Primeval' series four filming finishes – Primeval News – TV" . Digital Spy . 25 June 2010 . Retrieved 9 February 2012 .
• [4] "WordTheatre | Giving Voice to Great Writing" . WordTheatre | Giving Voice to Great Writing .
• [5] "Primeval Interview – Lucy Brown teases this weekend's wedding episode!" . Unreality Shout. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012 . Retrieved 9 February 2012 .
• [6] "Lucy Brown – The Placeholder Page" . Myweb.tiscali.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016 . Retrieved 9 February 2012 .
• [7] "Login • Instagram" . www.instagram.com . {{ cite web }} : Cite uses generic title ( help )
• [8] Nepales, Ruben V. "A palace built on strawberry fields" . entertainment.inquirer.net .

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Lucy Hires an English Tutor

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Lucy Hires an English Tutor is the thirteenth episode of the second season of I Love Lucy , and the forty-eighth overall episode of the series. It first aired 29 December 1952 on CBS.

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Lucy wants her baby to be raised in the "proper vocal environment," so she hires a tutor to teach Ricky proper English diction. The tutor turns out to be a struggling actor, and hopes that Ricky will give him a break. Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel all sing a ridiculous song composed by the tutor.

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