![]() ![]() ![]() When that company failed, she returned home and was active as actress, producer, and director in a group staging charity shows. Upon her return to Christchurch, Marsh resumed painting for a brief period before leaving once again to tour with a local acting company formed by Rosemary Rees. She toured with Wilkie for two years, meanwhile writing verse, articles, and short Though he rejected the play, he returned it in person and invited her to join his company. Her parents had been amateur actors, and she considered the appearances of Allan Wilkie's Shakespearean troupe in Christchurch “one of the great events of student days.”Īcting Career, International Travel, and a Move to London Marsh had already begun to write and submitted a Regency play, The Medallion, to Wilkie. She first studied painting, entering art school when she was fifteen, but her great love was always the theater. Works in Biographical and Historical Contextĭeveloping Early Passions for Theater Ngaio Marsh was born in Christchurch on April 23, 1899, to Henry Edmund and Rose Elizabeth Seager Marsh. In a career that spanned almost half a century, her popularity grew steadily, and her works became as sought after in the United States as they were in England and her native New Zealand. During what is usually referred to as the Golden Age of the detective story, Ngaio Marsh was one of a small group of British mystery writers who set standards of the detective novel that broadened the audience for the genre. ![]()
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