India, Jan. 25 -- l Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in scenic Torquay, Devon, on what is called the English Riviera, on September 15, 1890. She was the youngest of three born to Frederick Miller and Clarissa Boehmer, a wealthy upper-middle-class couple. The baby was baptised at All Saints Church, which her family helped build. It still holds the marble baptismal font, and the Miller family pew. l Agatha learned to read at age four, and devoured the works of Louisa May Alcott, Edith Nesbit and Lewis Carroll. l Her first published work was a poem about the trams newly introduced to the London suburb of Ealing. She wrote it in 1901, at the age of 11, during a visit to her grandmothers, both of whom lived in that city. It was published in ...