Margery Allingham Quotes


Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.


Citations

Allingham, Margery. The Fashion in Shrouds. Heinemann, 1938.

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Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham
  • Born: May 20, 1904
  • Died: June 30, 1966
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Novelist

Margery Louise Allingham was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion.