The Clotilda is the ship that brought Cudjo Lewis to the United States, as told in the upcoming Zora Neale Hurston book Barracoon: The Story of the Last âBlack Cargoâ which is due to be published for the first time later this year.
Geraldine McEwan died yesterday aged 82, her children have confirmed. The actress was best known for playing Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Ms McEwan played Miss Marple for 12 TV films - with her last one in 2009. She had a long and successful career, winning a Bafta award in 1991. Stars and fans this evening paid tribute to the 'beautiful and funny' actress.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (nee NÃ©e; miller 15 september â 1890 12 january) 1976 was An english crime, novelist short story writer and. playwrighturing Agatha Christie's life, she had set up a private company, Agatha Christie Limited, to hold the rights to her works, and around 1959 she had also transferred her 278-acre home, Greenway Estate, to her daughter Rosalind.