Christie Survived Rejection by Publishers
What the world does not know is that Agatha Christine did not start as a great writer, but she struggle to achieve her success. She initially worked as a nurse in Devon Hospital during her early ages attending to First World War victims. Initially, she was an unsuccessful writer, and she failed in her first six attempts. She had six rejections since no publisher thought she could meet the standards.
Crowds at King’s Cross Station await the arrival of crime writer Agatha Christie and her husband Colonel Archibald Christie, December 1926. The famous authoress had disappeared for eleven days, only to be discovered in a hotel in Harrogate, claiming to have suffered a nervous breakdown. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
After failing to convince publishers to publish her work, she went to work in a pharmacy during the Second World War. This is where many people believe she acquired her knowledge of poisons which featured in almost all her works. Her first breakthrough came in 1920 when her first work “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” in which she featured Hercule Poirot was published.