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an ingenious but lifeless puzzle into an intellectually respectable branch of fiction with serious claims to be judged as a novel". As a reviewer Sayers wrote of one book by a now neglected writer, A. E. Fielding, "The plot is extremely intricate and full of red herrings, and the solution is kept a dark secret up to the last moment. The weakness ... is that the people never really come alive." She admired Agatha Christie, but in her own works Sayers moved away to some extent from the traditional whodunit towards what has been dubbed the "howdunit": "There is still an idea going about that the 'Who?' book is the only legitimate variety of the species. Yet, if we demand any sort of likeness to real life, the 'How?' book is much nearer to the facts". James notes that Sayers nonetheless wrote within the "Golden Age" conventions, with a central mystery, a closed circle of suspects and a solution that the reader can work out by logical deduction from clues "planted with deceptive cunning but essential fairness ... Those were not the days of the swift bash to the skull followed by 60,000 words of psychological insight".
2184: 2071: 1598: 388: 1982: 881:, whom Sayers admired. She was one of the club's most enthusiastic members; she devised its elaborate initiation ritual in which new members swore to write without relying on "Divine Revelation, Feminine Intuition, Mumbo Jumbo, Jiggery Pokery, Coincidence or the Act of God" and "to observe a seemly moderation in the use of Gangs, Conspiracies, Death-Rays, Ghosts, Hypnotism, Trap-Doors, Chinamen, Super-Criminals and Lunatics, and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to Science". The club charged no subscription fees, and to raise money for the acquisition of premises members contributed to collaborative works for broadcast or print. The first, organised by Sayers, was 41: 2052:
moment in Sayers's career as a detective writer" as it signalled the change towards her new literary form of detective novel. He sees Vane as "a literary self-portrait of Sayers", being financially independent, a career woman and one who eschewed the patriarchal expectations of inter-war Britain. In cohabiting with a lover and rejecting a marriage proposal from him and then initially rejecting marriage to Wimsey before accepting him, there is a display of Sayers's view of the basis of marriage: one that is "equal, intellectual, passionate, amusing, challenging", according to Sayers's biographer, Catherine Kenney.
1836: 530: 1439: 795: 1578: 7455: 7391: 2164: 1564:, Sayers's reputation as a novelist is based on her works featuring Peter Wimsey, the aristocratic amateur detective who appears in eleven of her twelve novels and four collections of short stories. Benstock considers the novels to be "of consistently high literary quality" displaying "witty repartee and erudite epigrams", while Bruce Merry, an analyst of detective fiction, thinks them "intellectually ... resourceful and highly refined", even though they have not aged well. 1772:, the play she wrote for the Canterbury Festival in 1937, went on tour nationally, played a limited West End season, and was well reviewed. A London critic wrote, "Not only is this play sincere and impressive ... it is good entertainment ... an essentially serious treatment of theological questions ... which with rare skill Miss Sayers has made at the same time dramatic". According to the literary academic Crystal Downing, the staging of 1925:—a difficult form to use in English translations, given the fewer rhyme endings when compared with Italian. The theological academic Mary Prentice Barrows considers that when the form is used in English translations of Dante, including those by Sayers, "the necessity of fitting the exact sense into triple rhymes inevitably forces distorted syntax and strange choices of words, so that the limpidity—the characteristic beauty of the original—is lost". 940: 724:". Some other reviews were more favourable: "the solution does not, as is so often the case, come as an anti-climax to disappoint expectations and lead the reader to feel that he has been 'had' ... We hope to hear from the noble sleuth again"; "We had hardly thought a woman writer could be so robustly gruesome ... a very diverting problem"; "First-rate construction ... a thoroughly satisfactory yarn from start to finish". 1382:, who played Jesus, said the plays were successful because "we did not approach the parts in a reverential frame of mind. We approached them exactly as if it was any other kind of play". As the series progressed, the controversy died down. The BBC's religious advisory committee, representing all the major Christian denominations, was united in support of the cycle, which came to be regarded as one of Sayers's greatest achievements. 1162: 736:". That liaison was short-lived—White turned out to be married—and the son, whom Sayers named John Anthony, was brought up by Ivy Shrimpton, who already had foster children in her care. Sayers concealed her son's parentage from him and from the world in general. She was known to him at first as "Cousin Dorothy", and she later posed as his adoptive mother. Only after her death were the facts made explicit. 2354:, where Sayers lived between 1921 and 1929. The Dorothy L. Sayers Society was founded in 1976 and, as at 2024, continues in its mission "to promote the study of the life, works and thoughts of this great scholar and writer, to encourage the performance of her plays and the publication of books by and about her, to preserve original material for posterity and to provide assistance for researchers". 1686:". Eric Sandberg, in his examination of the Wimsey novels, dissents from this view, and considers "it would not be accurate to describe Sayers's depiction of the aristocracy as adulatory or sycophantic" as, with the exception of Wimsey and his mother, other members of the upper classes are written as being dim or archaic. Peter Latham, in his examination of snobbery in modern novels 1882:, was only two-thirds complete. Reynolds finished the translation and it was published in 1962. The three volumes of the Sayers translation sold 1.25 million copies by 1999. Writing in 1989 Reynolds noted that because of Sayers's translations, Dante has been read by "more English-speaking readers in the last forty years than he had in the preceding six and a quarter centuries". 7377: 2030:
enlightened than the average." When Sayers was asked by her publisher if the French translation could tone down some of the references to Jewish characteristics and attributes, she replied "Certainly they can soften the thrusts against the Jews if they like and if there are any. My own opinion is that the only people who were presented in a favourable light were the Jews!"
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series of poems linked to a complex structure". Fitts considers her "not ... an accomplished poet; but she does handle verse intelligently". With each of the Dante translations, Sayers included detailed introductions to explain her word choices and to provide alternative translations. Notes were included on each
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was "an astonishing and far-reaching innovation", not only because it used colloquial speech and because Jesus was portrayed by an actor (something not then permitted in theatres in Britain), but also because "it brought the gospels into people's lives in a way that demanded an imaginative response".
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The all-women college of Somerville suited well, according to Kenney, because of its practice of cultivating its students to take prominent roles in the arts and public life. She enjoyed her time there, and, she later said, acquired a scholarly method and habit of mind which served her throughout her
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From the outset, Sayers aimed to develop the detective novel from the pure puzzle into a less artificial style, comparable with non-crime fiction of the period. A later writer of crime novels, P. D. James, writes that Sayers "did as much as any writer in the genre to develop the detective story from
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The one characteristic of Dorothy's writing which might reasonably be considered offensive (and it is the connecting link between all the more specific sins of which she has been accused) is an air of rather patronizing superiority towards mankind in general. She patronizes the upper classes as much
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She thought Dante was "simply the most incomparable story-teller who ever set pen to paper", and in addition to the parallels of the world during war, she believed that her society suffered from a lack of faith, declining morality, dishonesty, exploitation, disharmony and other similar problems, and
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Not for a long time has there appeared a detective story so amusing, so lively, so witty and so agreeable. ... All Miss Sayers's characterisation is bright, natural and amusing; not a character in the book hangs fire, and there is a delightful absence of conventional clichés throughout ...
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I have never known anyone so brimful of the energy of a well-stocked mind: even at 24, when I knew her first, she knew an enormous amount about all sorts of subjects unconnected with Old French literature, which was her alleged "special," and nothing would content her but fact. There was, however, a
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such as "The second man ... seemed to wear the long-toed boots affected by Jew boys of the louder sort"; "'God bless my soul', said Sir Charles horrified, 'an English girl in the hands of a nigger. How abominable"; and "Nigger taste runs rather to boots and hair oil". Scowcroft also highlights
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I saw the whole lay-out of Hell as something actual and contemporary; something that one can see by looking into one's self, or into the pages of tomorrow's newspaper. I saw it, that is, as a judgment of fact, unaffected by its period, unaffected by its literary or dogmatic origins and I recognised
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In the same year Sayers married a divorcé, Captain Oswald Arthur (known as "Mac") Fleming, a well-known journalist. Her son was given the latter's surname but was not brought to live with Sayers and her husband. The marriage, happy at first, grew more difficult as Fleming's health declined, but the
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Other reviewers wrote of a "well-written and pulsating mystery story, with an astonishing number of clues cleverly evolved, and totally unexpected conclusion", and a "pleasantly-going and smartly-written detective story"; another commented, "Miss Sayers is frankly out to thrill us; but her novel is
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convent school in Oxford, made extended visits to the Bluntisham rectory. Kenney writes that the two formed a lifelong friendship through "a youthful sharing of books, imagination, and confidences". Otherwise, Kenney comments, Sayers, "like many future authors ... lived largely a life of books
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Under the aegis of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, Reynolds collected and edited Sayers's letters, written between 1889 and 1957 and published in five volumes between 1995 and 2002. The final volume includes the texts of Sayers's autobiographical fragment and unfinished autobiographical novel first
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Sayers published no autobiographical work, and told her literary executor, Muriel St Clare Byrne, that she wanted no biography of her to be written until fifty years after her death. This wish was not legally enforceable, and several biographies and literary studies of Sayers were published in the
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fiction, views the work "positively in terms of both literary quality and feminist politics", calling it "a pioneering defense of women's education". The literary critic Melissa Schaub sees Vane as "a feminist model for everyday readers". Sandberg considers the introduction of Vane as "a watershed
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In her off-duty hours Sayers devoted herself to writing fiction. Detective novels were popular, and Sayers saw an opportunity to produce remunerative, accessible but well-written works in the genre. She mastered the mechanics of the craft by making a close analytical study of the best models. In a
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by Ralph E. Hone (1979). Such books were written without access to Sayers's personal papers, which included a large archive of correspondence, an unpublished memoir of her early years and an unfinished autobiographical novel. Byrne and Anthony Fleming, Sayers's son, concluded around 1980 that the
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Reynolds considers Sayers was well placed to deal with Dante's rhyming structure. She had been interested in translating poetry from her schooldays and had enjoyed writing her own early verses. Her first works of poetry, according to Reynolds, contain "a masterly and beautiful example of a lay, a
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Despite some excellent teachers, Sayers was not happy at the school. Joining at the age of fifteen, rather than the school's normal starting age of eight, she was seen as an outsider by some of the other girls, and not all the staff approved of her independence of mind. As an Anglican with strong
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forget about the distinction between "prose" and "poetry", and to approach the Comedy as though it were a serious and intelligent novel. ... For in the fourteenth century, the allegorical poem was precisely what the novel is to-day—the dominant literary form, into which a writer could pour,
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I bolted my meals, neglected my sleep, work and correspondence, drove my friends crazy, and paid only a distracted attention to the doodle-bugs which happened to be infesting the neighbourhood at the time, until I had panted my way through the Three Realms of the Dead from top to bottom and from
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There were already many ingenious writers, but most of them either wrote in a pedestrian style, with little concern for anything except a puzzle, or rashly incorporated out of traditional fiction elements over which they had no command. ... She mastered the art of giving a pleasant literary
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in what was termed modern (in fact medieval) French in her final examinations. Despite her examination results, she was ineligible to be awarded a degree, as Oxford did not formally confer them on women. When the university changed its rules in 1920, Sayers was among the first to have her degree
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Scowcroft concludes his examination by saying that although Sayers showed some elements of contemporary attitudes, "the much stronger evidence of her Jewish and foreign characters as they unfold in her books suggest that in the matter of 'racial prejudice', ... she and Lord Peter were more
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From 1940 Sayers published volumes containing studies, lectures, and essays on theological topics. According to the historian Lucy Wooding the plays and the books combine a high degree of professional competence with "fresh and penetrating insights into the meaning of the Christian faith in the
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Sayers shared this view. She wrote in 1934, "... when I meet the least touch of real originality, or creepy-crawlery, or glamour, or humour, or sheer rollicking cut-and-thrust-and have-at-'em combativeness in a thriller I hail it with cries of joy. But 99 times out of 100 I find only bad
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to include feminist topics in her work. This includes the character of Harriet Vane, who is portrayed as a strong, independent woman. She has her own career, is strong enough to have a co-habiting relationship in an age when it was socially unacceptable and was nearly an equal to Wimsey as a
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dialect and explained it was "a dialect which bears something of the same relation to English as Provençal does to Italian". Sayers's biographer Mary Brian Durkin observes that "many find her translation of the passage jarring and distracting", while Durkin thinks it "forced ... almost
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accounts thus far published were "incomplete or inaccurate or both" and that, despite Sayers's wish for a fifty-year moratorium, an authoritative biography should be written "which incorporated the available facts, before those who knew her had died and the records had been scattered".
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observes that while Sayers reflected the prejudices of her time, the casual manner in which the racism is used is unpleasant, although, she notes, in none of her novels does Sayers make the villain or murderer Jewish. Brabazon, reflecting on the criticism against her generally, wrote:
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commented that her book "delivers a far warmer and more humane Sayers than previous biographers ... Where Ralph Hone and James Brabazon attempted to dig Sayers out of the social psychology of late Victorian England ... Reynolds allows her to speak in her own voice". In 2020
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Sayers's relationship with Cournos continued until 1922. It remained unconsummated because Cournos did not want children and Sayers refused, for religious reasons, to use contraception. After that affair ended she met a man, Bill White, by whom she had a son in 1924. The novelist
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I was not sure I wanted to "identify myself" ... with feminism, and that the time for "feminism", in the old-fashioned sense of the word, had gone past. In fact, I think I went so far as to say that, under present conditions, an aggressive feminism might do more harm than
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The literary critic Laurel Young considers that Sayers was a feminist, as not only did she have strong female characters within her works, but also led an independent and seemingly non-conformist life. Sayers did not consider herself as such, and in a 1938 address, she said:
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had considerably more room than the family's house in Oxford, but the move cut them off from the city's lively social scene. This affected the rector and his wife differently: he was scholarly and self-effacing; she, like many of the Leigh family—including her great-uncle
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something far other than a typical shocker. Her characters (especially her hero) are very much alive, and she has an admirable narrative style and great constructive skill". With this second novel, Sayers was being compared with the established crime novelist
1362:(1941–42), which, Kenney observes, were broadcast to "a huge audience of Britons during the darkest days of the Second World War". Sayers insisted from the outset on realism, modern speech and a portrayal of Jesus. He had appeared as a character in numerous 2538:. He was in a military hospital in January 1919 and discharged himself; Brabazon notes he did so "little knowing what the long-term effects of his physical and psychological injuries were going to be". In later life Fleming suffered badly with depression, 912:
technique in a story mostly told in exchanges of letters between the characters. Peter Wimsey does not appear in the book: Brabazon writes that Sayers "tasted the joys of freedom from Wimsey". Reviews were favourable, but gave only qualified praise. In
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which she considers parody: "Bunter produced an innocent looking monocle which was, in reality, a powerful magnifier. 'And the finger-print powder is in your lordship's right-hand coat pocket'". Pitt sees comparisons between the Wimsey novels and the
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writes that Sayers took a lively part in the life of the school, acting in plays, some of which she wrote and produced herself, singing (sometimes solo), playing the violin and the viola in the school orchestra and forming highly charged friendships.
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considers these "acutely satisfying and thought provoking and infinitely enriching the work". Sayers also provided an outline on Dante's life and personality, "without which", in Perry's view, "the whole work would be robbed of much of its meaning".
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modern world". Wooding writes that Sayers was loosely associated with several other representatives of "what might be called lay orthodoxy", including C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and T. S. Eliot, writing before and after the Second World War.
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thought that Sayers had never been conventionally beautiful and after attending one of her lectures in the 1930s, she wrote "There can be few plainer women on earth than Dorothy Sayers I have never come across one so magnetic to listen to".
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Sayers was educated chiefly at home. Her father began teaching her Latin before she was seven, and she had lessons from governesses in other subjects, including French and German. In January 1909, when she was fifteen, her parents sent her to
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Wimsey is variously described as "a caricature", a "Wooster-like, monocled, man-about-Town", an "underdeveloped character", "one-dimensional" and a character "in the so-called Silly Ass tradition shaped by P. G. Wodehouse’s facetious
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mustard. She is sometimes credited with coining the slogan "My Goodness, My Guinness", but it dates from 1935, more than five years after she left Benson's. She was, though, responsible for the introduction of the Guinness
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draws on the author's personal experiences. Her portrait of the Rev Theodore Venables "tenderly evoked" her father, "unworldly, self-effacing lovable", as Reynolds puts it. The rectory in which Wimsey and his manservant,
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by Barbara Reynolds, the then chairman of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society, published in 1993, marking the centenary of the subject's birth. Like Brabazon, Reynolds had been a friend of Sayers; the literary critic of
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The duke in the Sayers stories—Wimsey's elder brother Gerald—and the latter's son and heir, Viscount Saint-George, had by then died, respectively, of natural causes and on active service during the Second World
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where female students would read and critique each other's work. Sayers gave the group its name, remarking, "if we didn't give ourselves that title, the rest of College would". The society was a forerunner of
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Salter, G. Connor (2022). "Review of Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography: Death, Dante and Lord Peter Wimsey; Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis, Dalfonzo Gina".
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in English, and her use of some archaisms for the sake of rhyme which "are so nearly pervasive that they reduce the impact of a work generously conceived and lovingly elaborated". In the introduction to
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Kenney describes the book as "flawed but brilliant". In terms of its literary status in relation to more manifestly serious fiction of Sayers's day, Kenney ranks it below the final three Wimsey novels,
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said that the final twist "is really startling and ingenious, and though the reader is given a perfectly fair chance of guessing it none but the most ingenious can hope to do so"; and the reviewer in
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At the request of Byrne and Fleming, the author James Brabazon, a friend of Sayers, wrote an authorised biography, aiming to give a full and accurate account of Sayers's life. It was published as
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For her translation Sayers chose to use modern colloquial English, and as she described, "to eschew 'Marry, quotha!' without declining upon 'Sez you!'". Where she differed from this was in
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played Wimsey and Harriet. It ran for more than a year, and while it was still running, Sayers rewrote it as a novel, published in 1937, the last of her full-length books featuring Wimsey.
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called it a "revolting imitation of the voice of our Divine Saviour and Redeemer" and declared, "to impersonate the Divine Son of God in this way is an act of irreverence bordering on the
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In preparation for writing the cycle, Sayers made her own translations of the Gospels from the original Greek into modern English; she hoped to persuade listeners that the 17th-century
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describes as "less a development than a metamorphosis". Sayers's portrayal of Wimsey's mental crises as a result of shell shock and aspects of the war run throughout the Wimsey series.
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in Sayers's translation. Reviews were excellent. One critic wrote, "Her translation ... is not only scholarly but is being hailed as the best English translation of that poem". In
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life. She was a distinguished student, and, in Kenney's view, Sayers's novels and essays reflect her liberal education at Oxford. Among the lifelong friends she made at Somerville was
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observes that the growth of the Golden Age writing in Britain during the inter-war years came "not by adherence to the rules but through a measure of revolt against them" by Sayers,
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Sayers was growing tired of the solitary vocation of a novelist, and was glad to collaborate with her old university friend Byrne on a new Wimsey story written for the theatre.
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in Sayers's version, but concluded "but all in all it looks to me like the translation to read ... you can't read very far into it and still think Dante is dull".
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Sayers moved the genre of detective fiction away from pure puzzles lacking characterisation or depth, and became recognised as one of the four "Queens of Crime" of the
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called the play "very amusing and provocative"—but at that stage of the war there was no demand for another light comedy in the West End, and there was no transfer.
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Sayers was disappointed with the book, and reproached herself for failing to do better with the material provided by her co-author. Her second book of the year was
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at the school in 1911 Sayers nearly died. Her mother was allowed to stay at the school, where she nursed her daughter, who recovered in time to study and sit for a
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between 17 November 1939 and 26 January 1940, using Wimsey and his family and friends to convey Sayers's thoughts on life and politics in the early weeks of the
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called Sayers "the greatest of all detective story writers", though worried that her plots were so clever that some readers might struggle to keep up with them.
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I undertook (not very successfully) to present a contrast of two "cardboard" worlds, equally fictitious—the world of advertising and the world of the post-war "
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Sayers told Chesterton's widow, "I think, in some ways, G.K.'s books have become more a part of my mental make-up than those of any writer you could name".
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The revolt against the rules was shown in the development of the Wimsey character. Several critics have considered that on Wimsey's first appearance—in
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was over-familiar to churchgoers and incomprehensible to everyone else. In a 1984 study of religious broadcasting in Britain, Kenneth Wolfe writes of
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lighter side to this impressive character. Long and slim in those days, small head held alert on slender neck, she loped round Oxford looking for fun.
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As well as her work on Dante, Sayers continued to write drama. At the BBC's request she created a cycle of twelve radio plays portraying the life of
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wrote an introduction to the book, and Sayers was praised for making a historically important poem available for the first time in modern English.
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which gave her considerable trouble, and there were technical errors in her description of the practice. The book gained enthusiastic notices. In
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into his "Ten Commandments of Detection" which were to avoid clichés in plots and to allow readers a chance of working out who the murderer was.
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were broadcast in every decade from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the cycle was repeated in the first and second decades of the 21st century.
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in 1987. On BBC radio, in numerous adaptations of Sayers's detective stories, Wimsey has been played by more than a dozen actors, including
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praised the "illuminating" translation and Sayers's "compendious notes", and said that future readers would be "profoundly in her debt".
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was not "to do good", but to tell the story to the best of her ability ... "in short, to make as good a work of art as I could".
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Hunt, Margaret Wiedemann (June 2017). "'Playwrights Are Not Evangelists': Dorothy L. Sayers on Translating the Gospels into Drama".
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From the mid‐1930s Sayers wrote plays, mostly on religious themes; they were performed in English cathedrals and broadcast by the
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Fleming's birth name was "Oswald Arthur Fleming", but he adopted and used the name Atherton Fleming; friends knew him as "Mac".
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published a further biography of Sayers, interspersing the factual material with imagined dramatised scenes and conversations.
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shows that what he most wished for was a good detective story. The same year Sayers worked on a script for a film to be called
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Hannay, Margaret P. (1980). "Harriet's Influence on the Characterization of Lord Peter Wimsey". In Hannay, Margaret P. (ed.).
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Bogen, Anna (1 December 2016). ""Neither Art Itself nor Life Itself": Gaudy Night, the Detective Novel, and the Middlebrow".
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by Catherine Kenney (1990). Kenney is also the author of the article on Sayers in the ODNB, which replaced an earlier one by
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The post with Blackwell lasted for two years, after which Sayers moved to France. She was engaged in 1919 by a school near
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Mayhall, Laura E. Nym (October 2021). "Aristocracy Must Advertise: Repurposing the Nobility in Interwar British Fiction".
5270: 5236: 5202: 5051: 5017: 1642: 877:". The dinners proved such a success that the participants agreed to form themselves into a club, under the presidency of 2330:, with whom Sayers consulted extensively during the last year of her life, in her attempt to rehabilitate the Roman poet 2221:
played Wimsey in serial adaptations of six of the novels (none of them featuring Vane), broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
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in earlier centuries, but this was the first time an actor had played the part on radio; the press referred to "a radio
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After graduating from Oxford, Sayers, who had begun writing verse in childhood, brought out two slim volumes of poetry,
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because she was not "a more convincing type of Christian" and was reluctant to wear "any sort of ecclesiastical label".
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Schaub, Melissa (2013). "Middlebrow Feminism and the Politics of Sentiment: From the Moonstone to Dorothy L. Sayers".
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and stories". She could read by the age of four, and made full use of her father's extensive library as she grew up.
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said that Sayers poked some agreeable fun at a number of conventions, sentimental, literary, and theatrical and
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believed that Dante shared the same view of his own. Once she began to read, she found herself unable to stop:
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Sayers contributed verse to other publications, including two poems published in the short-lived gay magazine
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found it "miraculously right" with "a thrilling denouement"—and Paton Walsh wrote three more Wimsey novels.
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B. J. Rahn, an academic who specialises in detective fiction, believes Sayers was the first writer to use a
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in 1981, with a preface by Fleming and a foreword by P. D. James. Among later full-length biographies is
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In 1929, her last year as an employee of Benson's, Sayers and her husband moved from London to the small
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views, she was repelled by the form of Christianity practised at Godolphin, described by her biographer
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during bombing raids. She saw parallels between the writing and the state of the world during the war.
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between 1922 and 1929 before success as an author brought her financial independence. Her first novel,
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Miskimmin, Esme (2010). "Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)". In Rzepka, Charles J.; Horsley, Lee (eds.).
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It is to be hoped that Miss Sayers will not let anything check the flow of her detective-story habit.
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The Churches and the British Broadcasting Corporation, 1922–1956: The Politics of Broadcast Religion
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Hitchman, Janet and Alan Haycock. "This Blasphemous Outrage: The Row Over The Man Born to Be King",
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Works in which the war is used as a plot point, or in which Wimsey demonstrates his shell shock are
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Sayers insisted in an article titled "Playwrights are Not Evangelists" that her purpose was not to
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in July 1925, which, together with other short stories centred on Wimsey, came out in book form in
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Downing, Crystal (October 2013). "Angelic Work: The Medieval Sensibilities of Dorothy L. Sayers".
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Over the following two years Sayers published two Wimsey novels (neither featuring Harriet Vane)—
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The task that preoccupied Sayers from the 1940s to the end of her life was her translation of
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Brabazon questions the notion that Sayers spent much time taking refuge in air-raid shelters.
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for writers of detective fiction "for the enjoyment of each other's company and for a little
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Pitt, Valerie (1990). "Dorothy L. Sayers: The Masks of Lord Peter". In Bloom, Clive (ed.).
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In 1931 Sayers collaborated with Detection Club colleagues on a longer serial for the BBC,
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Sayers, Dorothy L. (2005). "Are Women Human?: Address Given to a Women's Society, 1938".
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The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Volume 1, 1899–1936, The Making of a Detective Novelist
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A 2021 study by the historian Laura Mayhall draws parallels between Wimsey and his valet
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as an author of detective stories that were also entertaining novels about human beings.
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Barrows, Mary Prentice (December 1965). "Translating Dante: The Art of the Impossible".
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wrote that it was "not merely admirable; it is adorable. ... It is a great book".
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flavour to her stories while at the same time keeping within her own imaginative range.
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Sayers wrote on religious themes from early in her life. Her second volume of verse,
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interest quite apart from the importance they attain through the events of the story.
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Young, Laurel (1 July 2005). "Dorothy L. Sayers and the New Woman Detective Novel".
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Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers
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Sayers published two novels in 1930. Prompted by a suggestion from a fellow author,
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Sayers's use of a monied aristocrat has been criticised. In 1963, in an article in
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of £700 a year, an amount that led Reynolds to describe him as "far from wealthy".
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said that Sayers would not have recognised that the book was not her own work. In
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Scowcroft, Philip L. (1990). "The War Service of Gerald, Viscount Saint-George".
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Sandberg, pp. 20 and 183; Brabazon, p. 152; Downing (2004), p. 35; Kenney, p. 152
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Green, Martin (14 March 1963). "The Detection of a Snob. On Lord Peter Wimsey".
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was a best-seller: its first print run of 50,000 quickly sold out. Cantica 2 of
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Rahn, B. J. (1993). "The Marriage of True Minds". In Stone Dale, Alzina (ed.).
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Perry, Anne (1993). "Dorothy L. Sayers on Dante". In Stone Dale, Alzina (ed.).
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The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends
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without incongruity, everything that he had to say about life and the universe.
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and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation.
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The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)
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Some studies of Sayers's works include biographical sections; among them are
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couple stayed together until his death of a stroke in 1950, when he was 68.
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called it a book to "keep a jaded reviewer out of bed in the small hours";
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Lott, Monica (2013). "Dorothy L. Sayers, the Great War, and Shell Shock".
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Merry, Bruce (1983). "Dorothy L. Sayers: Mystery and Demystification". In
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Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists, 1890–1929: Modernists
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in Oxford. Returning to the city suited her well. A younger contemporary,
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Reynolds, Barbara (1999). "Fifty Years On: Dorothy L. Sayers and Dante".
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Marsden, Brian G. (1987). "Dorothy L. Sayers and the Truth About Lucan".
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As Her Whimsey Took Her: Critical Essays on the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers
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Some of Sayers's stories have been filmed for the cinema and television.
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In 1935 Sayers published what she intended to be the last Wimsey novel,
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Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and
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Sayers's other main work from the wartime years was her extended essay
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said, "This is unquestionably Miss Sayers's best—until the next one".
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Women's Fiction of the Second World War: Gender, Power and Resistance
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Guinness Is Guinness: the Colourful Story of a Black and White Brand
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detective. Vane takes a leading part in Sayers's penultimate novel,
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Mrs Christie, on the whole, concentrates her ingenuity on a kind of
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as "a love story and a detective story, and so much more besides".
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at her home in Witham, aged 64; she was cremated six days later at
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The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante
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Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
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Fleming had been gassed and wounded in the war and had suffered
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the stereotypical physical descriptions of Jewish characters in
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and edited and introduced an anthology of other writers' works,
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When Sayers was four years old her father accepted the post of
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Scowcroft, Philip L. (1984). "Was Dorothy L. Sayers Racist?".
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Partial Answer: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas
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measure of inflation. In comparison, Sayers's father was on a
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Subversive: Christ, Culture and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers
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Sayers's novels have been criticised for racism, particularly
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into colloquial English. She died unexpectedly at her home in
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Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions
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The rules were codified in 1928 by the theologian and author
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Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997–2016
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Annual Report of the Dante Society, with Accompanying Papers
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he suffered from the war. The change is one that the writer
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, the Florentine. Cantica II:
5949:. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. pp. 36–50. 5006:"Such a Strange Lady: An Introduction to Dorothy L. Sayers" 2411: 5674:(1985). "Dorothy L. Sayers". In Stayley, Thomas F. (ed.). 2820:"Sayers (married name Fleming), Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957)" 2025:
as the lower classes, and the Scotsman as much as the Jew.
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The door to 1 Brewer Street, Oxford, where Sayers was born
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Sayers was born on 13 June 1893 at the Old Choir House in
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Sayers made a last foray into crime fiction in 1953 with
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The reference to "Chinamen" was probably a reference to
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published a completion of an unfinished Wimsey novel,
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While the play was in rehearsal the organisers of the
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and developed an unrequited passion for its director,
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Dorothy L. Sayers: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
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Twentieth-Century Suspense: The Thriller Comes of Age
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Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers
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Maker & Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers
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as "long, rambling, episodic, and wholly absorbing".
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Dorothy Sayers archives at the Marion E. Wade Center
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Sayers, Dorothy L. (1996). Reynolds, Barbara (ed.).
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was named after her. The asteroid was discovered by
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
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Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror
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Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers
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1533:. Her translation of the third and final volume of 1219:invited Sayers to write a drama for performance in 168: 142: 119: 109: 89: 72: 50: 34: 6689: 6666: 6599: 6504: 6481: 6480:Sayers, Dorothy L. (2017). Edwards, Martin (ed.). 6458: 6416: 6266: 5965: 5921: 5898: 5875: 5833: 5791: 5768: 5745: 5701: 5675: 5641:Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993 1788:play for the BBC and two articles on theology for 714:The first of Sayers's series of detective novels, 7961:People educated at Christ Church Cathedral School 7445:"Archival material relating to Dorothy L. Sayers" 6796:Dove, George N. (1981). "The Rules of the Game". 6101:. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 18–32. 5882:. Cincinnati, Ohio: St. Anthony Messenger Press. 5704:Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman 5433:Paton Walsh, Jill. "Wimsey—My part in his life", 5398:, BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 25 September 2023 5379:, BBC Genome Project. Retrieved 25 September 2023 2364:List of English translations of the Divine Comedy 2105:Dorothy L. Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman 1537:, two-thirds complete, was finished by Reynolds. 665:, and began a relationship with a fellow writer, 7726:(1998; based on unfinished manuscript by Sayers) 7125:Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 6167:Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G. K. Chesterton 5857:A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L. Sayers 4585:: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( 1157:Last novels and early religious works, 1935–1939 305:. Her radio dramatisation of the life of Jesus, 6056:. New York City: Church Publishing, Inc. 2019. 5771:Drink Talking: 100 Years of Alcohol Advertising 5459:Paton Walsh, p. 239; and Scowcroft (1990), p. 7 4567:. Archived from the original on 25 January 2024 3722: 3720: 2326:, but the name was suggested by the astronomer 2264:In 1998, at the invitation of Sayers's estate, 2058: 2022: 2009: 1948: 1784:. Between these two stage works Sayers wrote a 1345: 1335: 1090: 925: 779: 707: 642: 6547:Smith, Timothy d'Arch (2001). "Introduction". 6038:. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 5817:. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 5124:Reynolds (1993), unnumbered introductory pages 4762:Fitts, Dudley. "An Urge to Make Dante Known", 4169: 4167: 4165: 3978: 3976: 3974: 2952:". MeasuringWorth. Retrieved 22 February 2023. 1521:On 17 December 1957 Sayers died suddenly of a 1338:at the same moment that the judgment was true. 869:. This grew from informal dinners arranged by 865:In 1930 Sayers became a founder member of the 7476: 4746: 4744: 4557:. Oxford University Press. 17 February 2022. 4554:The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 4544:The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 4296: 4294: 3812:Coomes, p. 118; and Brabazon, pp. 154 and 155 3525:"Behind the Screen: A serial detective story" 1910: 1478:, another collaborative serial, published in 701:biographical sketch, a later crime novelist, 346:Henry Sayers and his wife Helen "Nell" Mary, 325:, aged 64, before completing the third book. 259:, she introduced a leading female character, 8: 6245:Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration 6186:Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration 5420:"Purves, Libby, "A corpse after courtship", 4378: 4376: 4243:Reynolds (1993), p. 364; and Youngberg, p. x 4234:, Wheaton College. Retrieved 5 December 2023 4010:"Radio Impersonation of Christ! A Protest", 3576:, 14 July 1930, p. 3; "Books for the Week", 1846:'s 1465 fresco, shown holding a copy of the 6188:. New York City: Walker. pp. 109–122. 6017:. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 5972:. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 5748:Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life 5729:. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin. 5468:Worsley, Lucy. "A gentle burst of Wimsey", 5407:Purves, Libby, "A corpse after courtship", 3213:, 24 October 1923, p. vi; and "New Books", 3194: 3192: 2414: 608:Early employment and first novel, 1916–1924 419:than the Christ Church posts and the large 7483: 7469: 7461: 7453: 7389: 5259:"The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers" 4957: 4955: 2590:Sayers's episode was the third, following 1893:for the words of the southern French poet 1508:, the second volume of her translation of 1053:(1934)—and a collection of short stories, 567:Sayers, who was considered to have a good 39: 31: 7066:VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center 6967:VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center 6247:. New York City: Walker. pp. 51–66. 5074:"Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography" 4758: 4756: 3753:Williams, Charles. "Murder and Mystery", 2880:Brabazon, p. 5; and Reynolds (1993), p. 3 1063:. She edited a third and final volume of 798:The third Wimsey novel, published in 1927 428:, a contributor to the humorous magazine 7931:English women dramatists and playwrights 7331:Works by Dorothy L. Sayers in eBook form 6014:The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers 5924:Dorothy L. Sayers, Nine Literary Studies 5335: 5333: 5323: 5321: 4500: 4498: 4496: 3928:, 10 April 1940, p. 6; and "The Torch", 3572:, 19 July 1930, p. 11; "More Thrillers" 3078:Wallace, Doreen. "Miss Dorothy Sayers", 2155:used by Brabazon in his 1981 biography. 2134:The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers 2066:Biographies and other books about Sayers 953:, in which she introduced the character 6035:"Am I a Snob?": Modernism and the Novel 5968:Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography 5306:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 4972:"Dorothy L. Sayers: A Bio-bibliography" 4810: 4808: 3635: 3633: 3605: 3603: 3546: 3544: 3475: 3473: 3471: 2830:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2814: 2812: 2810: 2808: 2806: 2804: 2802: 2800: 2749: 2380: 2097:Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography 1451:In 1950 Sayers was awarded an honorary 1294:For the theatre Sayers wrote a comedy, 818:in 1928. In that year Sayers published 440:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 161: 1926; died 1950) 7579:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 6565:from the original on 26 September 2023 6398:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 5775:. London: Middlesex University Press. 5609:from the original on 26 September 2023 5579:from the original on 29 September 2023 5549:from the original on 26 September 2023 4578: 4534: 4532: 4515:Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 3160: 3158: 3156: 3154: 3099: 3097: 2798: 2796: 2794: 2792: 2790: 2788: 2786: 2784: 2782: 2780: 2661:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 2628:Seven years earlier Sayers declined a 2516: 2514: 2288:published by Sayers in 1939 and 1940. 2229:played Vane in television versions of 1814:, Margaret Wiedemann Hunt writes that 1711:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 1504:, and in 1955 Penguin Books published 1223:, following the 1935 staging there of 815:The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club 640:, later described her in these years: 6228:. New York City: St. Martin's Press. 5798:(second ed.). Wheaton: H. Shaw. 5658:from the original on 13 December 2023 3865:Reynolds (1993), pp. 274, 278 and 283 3593:Waugh, Evelyn. "The Books You Read", 3346: 3344: 2924: 2922: 2386: 2384: 2081:Dorothy L. Sayers: A Bio-Bibliography 1860:Sayers's 1949 translation of Dante's 1306:in April 1940. Notices were friendly— 1067:and began reviewing crime novels for 347: 7: 7851:Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford 6692:Dorothy L. Sayers: A Reference Guide 6550:The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship 6269:Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul 5599:"Dorothy L. Sayers Society on JSTOR" 5273:from the original on 8 December 2023 5239:from the original on 8 December 2023 5205:from the original on 8 December 2023 5162:from the original on 25 January 2024 5088:from the original on 8 December 2023 5054:from the original on 8 December 2023 5020:from the original on 8 December 2023 4986:from the original on 8 December 2023 4650:from the original on 25 January 2024 3421: 3419: 2840: 2838: 2551:Published in the US under the title 2336:Episcopal Church liturgical calendar 2209:played Wimsey and Harriet Vane in a 2109:Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life And Soul 1678:in his study of interwar thrillers, 1088:and thought it an artistic failure: 979:. She edited a second collection of 370:colleges of the University of Oxford 7966:People educated at Godolphin School 7440:, Smith College Special Collections 7434:Dorothy L. Sayers letters and poems 7349:Works by or about Dorothy L. Sayers 6400:. New York City: Harper & Row. 6332:. New York City: Harper & Row. 5644:. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 5225:"Dorothy L. Sayers, a Pilgrim Soul" 4766:, 6 November 1955, section BR, p. 5 4076:Storrs, Ronald. "Recall to Dante", 1500:. The following year she published 616:Sayers's second book of verse, 1918 415:. The appointment carried a better 276:of the 1920s and 1930s, along with 7916:English dramatists and playwrights 7896:Critics of work and the work ethic 7841:20th-century English women writers 6938:Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 6598:Symons, Julian (1984). "Preface". 6532:. New York City: Springer-Verlag. 6292:. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock. 6011:Kenney, Catherine McGehee (1990). 5498:. International Astronomical Union 4202:Dorothy Sayers, Author, Dies at 64 3801:Journal of the English Association 3404:Brabazon, p. 252; and Dale, p. 124 2284:(2002) incorporated extracts from 1856:, with the spheres of Heaven above 1764:Catholic Tales and Christian Songs 1551:List of plays by Dorothy L. Sayers 1547:List of works by Dorothy L. Sayers 1447:, Sayers's last translation (1957) 1408:The Divine Comedy, Cantica I, Hell 943:Second of Sayers's two 1930 novels 626:Catholic Tales and Christian Songs 288:. She was a founder member of the 25: 7866:Burials at St Anne's Church, Soho 7035:Prescott, Barbara (5 June 2016). 6606:. New York City: Harper and Row. 6423:. San Francisco: Harper and Row. 5339:Sayers and Edwards, pp. 16 and 21 3582:Southwark and Bermondsey Recorder 3325:"The July 'Pearson's Magazine'", 2130:Dorothy L. Sayers, A Pilgrim Soul 1560:According to the literary critic 806:The Wimsey novels continued with 732:describes White as "motorcycling 215:, Sayers was brought up in rural 7375: 7051:from the original on 2 June 2021 6750:(1955). "On Translating Dante". 6529:Dictionary of Minor Planet Names 6273:. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 6169:. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 5308:, Oxford University Press 2019 4546:, Oxford University Press, 2022 3874:Reynolds (1993), pp. 280 and 285 3803:, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1936, p. 23 3790:"Aristotle on Detective Fiction" 3179:, Oxford University Press, 1971 3177:Dictionary of National Biography 2438: 2401: 2151:by Crystal Downing (both 2020). 1596: 1576: 1233:, and other plays. The result, 923:contrasted Sayers and Christie: 447:as an infant but educated in an 343: 342:; she was the only child of the 183: 7901:Deaths from coronary thrombosis 6602:The Scoop and Behind the Scenes 6442:. London: New English Library. 6347:The Divine Comedy. Cantica II: 5993:Talking About Detective Fiction 5539:"Sayers, Dorothy L (1893–1957)" 5148:"Dorothy L Sayers: A Biography" 4334:P. D. James in Brabazon, p. xiv 3207:"Special Literary Supplement", 2832:, Oxford University Press, 2004 1075:Golden Age of Detective Fiction 672:In 1922 Sayers took a job as a 274:Golden Age of Detective Fiction 239:. She worked as an advertising 158: 7981:Translators of Dante Alighieri 7836:20th-century English novelists 6950:10.5325/intelitestud.15.1.0103 6688:Youngberg, Ruth Tanis (1982). 6583:The Detective Story in Britain 5905:. London: Marshall Cavendish. 2928:"Somerville College, Oxford", 2132:by Nancy Tischler (1980), and 1812:Ecclesiastical History Society 1165:Penultimate Wimsey novel, 1935 599:, and in 1915 she was awarded 362:Christ Church Cathedral School 1: 7986:British women mystery writers 7956:Members of the Detection Club 7911:English crime fiction writers 7438:Mortimer Rare Book Collection 7404:The Dorothy L. Sayers Society 7241:Clues: A Journal of Detection 6391:. New York City: Basic Books. 4311:The Times Literary Supplement 3289:, Vol. 15 No. 10, 27 May 1993 3239:"A Woman's Detective Story", 2370:Notes, references and sources 2128:by Mary Brian Durkin (1980), 1643:The Times Literary Supplement 1372:Lord's Day Observance Society 1084:Sayers did not enjoy writing 983:, and as a solo effort wrote 352:Leigh. Henry Sayers, born at 7670:In the Teeth of the Evidence 7316:Resources in other libraries 7292:Resources in other libraries 6457:Sayers, Dorothy L. (2016) . 6438:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1992) . 6415:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1987) . 6396:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1986) . 6382:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1963) . 6126:A Companion to Crime Fiction 6076:The Oxford Handbook of Dante 6054:Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 5996:. Oxford: Bodleian Library. 5855:Gilbert, Colleen B. (1979). 5790:Dale, Alzina Stone (1992) . 5723:Carpenter, Humphrey (1979). 5526:Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 5312:UK public library membership 4513:"Play Bill at the Theatre", 4102:Reynolds (1993), pp. 328–329 3959:Reynolds (1999), pp. 3 and 5 3550:Reynolds (1993), pp. 221–222 3183:UK public library membership 3112:Reynolds (1993), pp. 126–128 2171:opposite her former home in 1946:, Sayers advised readers to 1502:Introductory Papers on Dante 1263:In the Teeth of the Evidence 539:Sayers was co-founder, with 7946:Italian–English translators 7798:A Dorothy L. Sayers Mystery 7374:(public domain audiobooks) 6827:Journal of Inklings Studies 6369:. London: Victor Gollancz. 6365:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1956). 6345:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1955). 6326:Sayers, Dorothy L. (1937). 6107:10.1007/978-1-349-17313-6_2 6099:Essays on Detective Fiction 5832:Durkin, Mary Brian (1980). 5708:. London: Victor Gollancz. 5106:Brabazon, pp. xii and xviii 4093:, 14 January 1951, p. iv-13 3413:Brabazon, pp. 115, 174, 250 2095:by Alzina Dale (1978), and 2083:by Leslie H. Romer (1975), 1937:criticised Sayers's use of 1463:, she wrote her last play, 1237:, was her dramatisation in 269:in 1935, six novels later. 148:Oswald Arthur "Mac" Fleming 8017: 7941:French–English translators 7891:British critics of atheism 7383:Works by Dorothy L. Sayers 7368:Works by Dorothy L. Sayers 7358:Works by Dorothy L. Sayers 7340:Works by Dorothy L. Sayers 6996:Journal of British Studies 6798:Studies in Popular Culture 6526:Schmadel, Lutz D. (1999). 6288:Reynolds, Barbara (2005). 6207:. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 5472:, 30 November 2013, p. 121 5446:Berlins, Marcel. "Crime", 4850:Sayers (1996), pp. 405–406 4370:Sayers (1937), pp. 349–350 4150:, 17 December 1954, p. 823 4135:Coventry Evening Telegraph 3069:Reynolds (1993), pp. 75–76 2916:Reynolds (1993), pp. 37–38 2889:Sayers and Reynolds, p. 15 1544: 630:Hull High School for Girls 507:Somerville College, Oxford 231:, Oxford, graduating with 114:Somerville College, Oxford 7654:Lord Peter Views the Body 7311:Resources in your library 7287:Resources in your library 6909:Studies in Church History 6553:. Hubbardston: Asphodel. 5874:Goetz, Joseph W. (1984). 5813:Downing, Crystal (2004). 5492:"(3627) Sayers = 1973 DS" 5450:, 16 October 2010, p. 132 5437:, 28 November 2002, p. 77 5394:26 September 2023 at the 5389:"The Man Born to Be King" 5375:26 September 2023 at the 4551:"Sayers, Dorothy Leigh". 4225:"St Anne's House Archive" 4191:Brabazon, pp. 270 and 272 4148:Times Literary Supplement 4036:Brabazon, pp. 183 and 202 4027:, 30 January 1975, p. 140 3897:, 23 December 1938, p. 40 3889:26 September 2023 at the 3843:, 24 December 1936, p. 10 3559:Brabazon, pp. 129 and 132 3530:26 September 2023 at the 3463:Sheffield Daily Telegraph 3443:Brabazon, pp. 142 and 270 2988:Brabazon, pp. 155 and 271 2217:, and for BBC television 1527:Golders Green Crematorium 989:, published in the US as 901:The Documents in the Case 820:Lord Peter Views the Body 760:Lord Peter Views the Body 549:Mutual Admiration Society 38: 7976:Sherlock Holmes scholars 7921:English feminist writers 7846:20th-century translators 7801:(1987 television series) 7785:(1972 television series) 6789:10.1215/00166928-3659074 6628:. London: Eyre Methuen. 6311:. Jefferson: McFarland. 5920:Hall, Trevor H. (1980). 5897:Griffiths, Mark (2005). 5573:Dorothy L Sayers Society 5424:, 5 February 1998, p. 39 4702:, 27 December 1949, p. 6 4640:"Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers" 4454:Sayers (1986), pp. 31–32 4261:Miskimmin (2010), p. 438 4182:Youngberg, pp. x and xxi 4137:, 20 November 1953, p. 4 4014:, 30 December 1941, p. 2 4001:, 11 December 1941, p. 3 3856:, 15 January 1938, p. 10 3852:"Entertainments Index", 3770:, 18 January 1934, p. 15 3757:, 17 January 1934, p. 4 3705:Worsley, pp. 221 and 229 3395:, 19 February 1926, p. 4 3382:, 18 February 1926, p. 2 3369:, 15 February 1926, p. 8 3217:, 1 December 1923, p. 4 3198:Sayers and Edwards, p. 8 2948:17 December 2017 at the 2941:Clark, Gregory (2023). " 2074:Sayers's house in Witham 1909:Sayers retained Dante's 1897:: Sayers instead used a 1810:In a 2017 study for the 1302:. It opened in a London 1241:of the life and work of 693:, painted by the artist 7991:Women religious writers 7936:English women novelists 7926:English mystery writers 7646:Short story collections 7253:10.3200/CLUS.23.4.39-53 7154:Modern Language Studies 6643:Wolfe, Kenneth (1984). 6307:Sandberg, Eric (2021). 6165:Pearce, Joseph (1996). 5964:Hone, Ralph E. (1979). 5638:Adams, Pauline (1996). 5496:The Minor Planet Center 4868:Harrison, pp. 67 and 69 4841:Scowcroft (1984), p. 18 4823:Scowcroft (1984), p. 16 4814:Scowcroft (1984), p. 15 4729:Sandberg, pp. 21 and 62 4698:"Miss Sayers's Dante", 4680:Reynolds (2005), p. xii 4661:(subscription required) 4548:(subscription required) 4540:"Sayers, Dorothy Leigh" 4230:5 December 2023 at the 4207:3 December 2023 at the 4120:"Colchester Premiere", 4111:Reynolds (1993), p. 347 4080:, 29 January 1950, p. 7 3830:Reynolds (1993), p. 269 3821:Reynolds (1993), p. 276 3795:25 January 2024 at the 3779:Reynolds (1993), p. 260 3726:Reynolds (1993), p. 207 3465:, 2 November 1929, p. 7 3307:Reynolds (1993), p. 273 3256:, 27 October 1923, p. 4 3230:, 3 November 1923, p. 9 3171:25 January 2024 at the 3166:"Sayers, Dorothy Leigh" 3082:, 1 January 1958, p. 13 3006:Carpenter, pp. xiii–xiv 2825:25 January 2024 at the 2765:Reynolds (1993), p. 361 2756:Reynolds (1993), p. 179 2436:, but Sayers preferred 2259:The Man Born to Be King 1891:the dialect of Provence 1825:The Man Born to Be King 1816:The Man Born to Be King 1805:The Man Born to Be King 1740:Baker Street Irregulars 1465:The Emperor Constantine 1426:criticised some of the 1359:The Man Born to Be King 1288:The Man Born to Be King 1230:Murder in the Cathedral 740:Early novels, 1925–1929 308:The Man Born to Be King 7971:People from Bluntisham 7739:The Attenbury Emeralds 7731:A Presumption of Death 6839:10.3366/ink.2013.3.2.7 6696:. Boston: G. K. Hall. 6367:The New Sayers Omnibus 5744:Coomes, David (1993). 4877:Rahn, pp. 52 and 55–56 4711:Sayers (1963), p. 280 4526:Downing (2013), p. 111 4352:Downing (2004), p. 102 4313:, 12 June 1937. p. 445 3991:"Radio Oberammergau". 3674:, 12 April 1932, p. 20 3597:, 19 July 1930, p. 122 3584:, 15 August 1930, p. 6 3378:"Current Literature", 3287:London Review of Books 3281:19 August 2023 at the 3243:18 October 1923, p. 10 3091:Reynolds (1993), p. 88 3033:Reynolds (1993), p. 56 3024:Reynolds (1993), p. 50 2961:Reynolds (1993), p. 63 2291:The Attenbury Emeralds 2281:A Presumption of Death 2198: 2176: 2075: 2063: 2027: 2013: 1986: 1953: 1911: 1857: 1680:Snobbery with Violence 1531:St Anne's Church, Soho 1448: 1350: 1340: 1166: 1098: 1038: 944: 937: 910:first-person narrative 847:The Romance of Tristan 799: 784: 712: 647: 617: 536: 497:During an outbreak of 396: 372:. Her mother, born in 7611:Murder Must Advertise 7595:The Five Red Herrings 7137:10.1353/log.2005.0040 6673:. London: BBC Books. 6669:A Very British Murder 6647:. London: SCM Press. 6488:. Perth: Tippermuir. 6461:Murder Must Advertise 6419:The Mind of the Maker 6032:Latham, Sean (2003). 5928:. London: Duckworth. 5859:. London: Macmillan. 5137:, 11 June 1994, p. 15 5115:Brabazon, title pages 4949:Sayers (2005), p. 165 4784:Reynolds (2005), p. 8 4517:, 8 April 1938, p. 88 4309:"Detective in Love", 4173:Reynolds (1999), p. 3 4133:"Dorothy L. Sayers", 4124:, 19 July 1951, p. 10 4089:"Favorite Classics", 4063:"Books and Bookmen", 3968:Sayers (1954), p. 128 3932:, 11 April 1940, p. 5 3884:"He That Should Come" 3766:"Books of the Week", 3661:, 11 April 1932, p. 2 3574:Sheffield Independent 3538:, 8 June 1930, p. 581 3497:Brabazon, pp. 144–145 3461:"Mediaeval Romance", 3391:"Books of the Week", 3365:"Detective Stories", 3356:, 13 April 1926, p. 4 3276:"Complete with spats" 2844:Reynolds (1993), p. 1 2774:Reynolds (1993), p. 3 2506:Murder Must Advertise 2257:. New productions of 2253:, Ian Carmichael and 2186: 2166: 2147:by Gina Dalfonzo and 2073: 1984: 1844:Domenico di Michelino 1838: 1774:The Zeal of Thy House 1770:The Zeal of Thy House 1754:and Bertie Wooster." 1744:Murder Must Advertise 1476:No Flowers By Request 1441: 1434:Last years, 1950–1957 1388:The Mind of the Maker 1235:The Zeal of Thy House 1164: 1122:Murder Must Advertise 1086:Murder Must Advertise 1044:Murder Must Advertise 1034:Murder Must Advertise 1031: 991:Suspicious Characters 986:The Five Red Herrings 942: 797: 615: 545:Charis Ursula Barnett 532: 520:Muriel St Clare Byrne 503:Gilchrist Scholarship 405:Bluntisham-cum-Earith 390: 340:Brewer Street, Oxford 45:1925 press photograph 7871:Christian apologists 7766:The Silent Passenger 7723:Thrones, Dominations 7449:UK National Archives 7300:By Dorothy L. Sayers 7212:Sidelights on Sayers 7183:Sidelights on Sayers 7024:Patterson, Nancy-Lou 6896:Harrison, Barbara G. 6222:Plain, Gill (1996). 5767:Dade, Penny (2008). 5133:"New in paperback", 4775:Sayers (1955), p. 14 4644:Contemporary Authors 4300:Symons (1962), p. 27 4288:Symons (1962), p. 24 4146:"The Living Dante", 4067:, 10 June 1950, p. 4 3714:Sayers (1987), p. 77 3657:"Have His Carcase", 3618:Sayers (1992), p. 25 3367:Western Morning News 3329:, 11 July 1923, p. 8 3148:Dade, pp. 35 and 127 3121:Sayers (2016), p. 82 2474:Consumer Price Index 2271:Thrones, Dominations 2211:1940 film adaptation 2167:Statue of Sayers by 1457:University of Durham 1453:Doctorate of Letters 1298:, a wry take on the 1221:Canterbury Cathedral 1186:The Silent Passenger 976:The Floating Admiral 828:The Omnibus of Crime 604:officially awarded. 295:The Floating Admiral 179:Dorothy Leigh Sayers 54:Dorothy Leigh Sayers 8001:Writers from Oxford 7881:Christian novelists 7876:Christian humanists 7861:British copywriters 7793:(1973 radio series) 7008:10.1017/jbr.2021.54 6921:10.1017/stc.2016.24 6585:. London: Longman. 6511:. London: Sceptre. 6352:. London: Penguin. 5358:"Dorothy L. Sayers" 5300:Richardson, Brian. 5291:Salter, pp. 254–255 5191:"Dorothy L. Sayers" 4481:Sayers (2016), p. 2 4436:Latham, pp. 170–172 4091:The Chicago Tribune 3788:Sayers, Dorothy L. 3515:Symons (1984), p. 3 3103:Brabazon, pp. 94–96 2553:The Dawson Pedigree 2223:Edward Petherbridge 2017:Nancy-Lou Patterson 1889:, where Dante used 1636:and marries her in 1523:coronary thrombosis 1461:Festival of Britain 1423:The Chicago Tribune 1397:Lichfield Cathedral 1250:He That Should Come 1217:Canterbury Festival 1094:Bright Young People 1007:was well received. 843:Tristan in Brittany 601:first class honours 564:and other members. 541:Amphilis Middlemore 233:first class honours 7996:Writers from Essex 7774:Busman's Honeymoon 7635:Busman's Honeymoon 6863:10.1353/pan.0.0176 6465:. London: Hodder. 6150:. London: Hodder. 6072:McLaughlin, Martin 5840:. Boston: Twayne. 5569:"Dorothy L Sayers" 4961:Brabazon, p. xviii 4793:Perry, pp. 109–110 4764:The New York Times 4689:McLaughlin, p. 593 4671:Stock, pp. 285–288 4215:, 19 December 1957 4213:The New York Times 3993:The Yorkshire Post 3755:The News Chronicle 3687:, 5 May 1932, p. 3 3685:The Liverpool Echo 3568:"The Better Way", 3164:Stewart, J. I. 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Wodehouse 1626:Agatha Christie 1614: 1613: 1612: 1611: 1610: 1608:Sherlock Holmes 1601: 1592: 1591: 1590: 1581: 1572: 1571: 1558: 1553: 1543: 1494:Gladys Mitchell 1490:Anthony Gilbert 1467:, described by 1436: 1380:Robert Speaight 1321:Dante Alighieri 1292: 1243:William of Sens 1206:Dennis Arundell 1159: 863: 809:Unnatural Death 789:Agatha Christie 742: 634:Basil Blackwell 610: 515: 467:boarding school 458: 336: 331: 329:Life and career 278:Agatha Christie 237:medieval French 203: 186: 182: 164: 156: 152: 149: 138: 129:Translation of 110:Alma mater 105: 81: 77: 64: 58: 56: 55: 46: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 8014: 8012: 8004: 8003: 7998: 7993: 7988: 7983: 7978: 7973: 7968: 7963: 7958: 7953: 7948: 7943: 7938: 7933: 7928: 7923: 7918: 7913: 7908: 7903: 7898: 7893: 7888: 7883: 7878: 7873: 7868: 7863: 7858: 7853: 7848: 7843: 7838: 7833: 7828: 7823: 7813: 7812: 7806: 7805: 7803: 7802: 7794: 7786: 7778: 7770: 7761: 7759: 7755: 7754: 7752: 7751: 7743: 7735: 7727: 7718: 7716: 7708: 7707: 7705: 7704: 7690: 7682: 7678:Striding Folly 7674: 7666: 7658: 7649: 7647: 7643: 7642: 7640: 7639: 7631: 7623: 7615: 7607: 7599: 7591: 7583: 7575: 7567: 7559: 7550: 7548: 7544: 7543: 7541: 7540: 7539:(family title) 7537:Duke of Denver 7534: 7532:Charles Parker 7529: 7524: 7519: 7514: 7508: 7506: 7502: 7501: 7490: 7488: 7487: 7480: 7473: 7465: 7459: 7458: 7441: 7431: 7421: 7420: 7416: 7415: 7406: 7400: 7399: 7395: 7394: 7380: 7365: 7355: 7346: 7337: 7327: 7326: 7319: 7318: 7313: 7308: 7302: 7298: 7295: 7294: 7289: 7284: 7278: 7277: 7266: 7265: 7263: 7262:External links 7260: 7258: 7257: 7236: 7207: 7178: 7149: 7131:(4): 165–178. 7120: 7102:(2): 254–258. 7090: 7061: 7032: 7020: 7002:(4): 771–792. 6991: 6962: 6944:(1): 103–126. 6933: 6904: 6892: 6875: 6857:(2): 365–387. 6843: 6833:(2): 111–132. 6822: 6793: 6783:(3): 255–272. 6772: 6744: 6732:10.2307/477521 6726:(4): 358–370. 6713: 6710: 6709: 6708: 6702: 6685: 6679: 6659: 6653: 6640: 6634: 6618: 6612: 6595: 6579:Symons, Julian 6575: 6544: 6538: 6523: 6517: 6500: 6494: 6477: 6471: 6454: 6448: 6435: 6429: 6412: 6406: 6393: 6379: 6362: 6342: 6323: 6317: 6304: 6298: 6285: 6279: 6259: 6253: 6240: 6234: 6219: 6213: 6200: 6194: 6181: 6175: 6162: 6156: 6140: 6134: 6121: 6115: 6090: 6084: 6068: 6062: 6050: 6044: 6029: 6023: 6008: 6002: 5984: 5978: 5961: 5955: 5940: 5934: 5917: 5911: 5894: 5888: 5878:Mirrors of God 5871: 5865: 5852: 5846: 5829: 5823: 5810: 5804: 5787: 5781: 5764: 5758: 5741: 5735: 5720: 5714: 5694: 5688: 5668: 5650: 5633: 5630: 5629: 5627: 5624: 5621: 5620: 5590: 5560: 5530: 5518: 5516:Marsden, p. 85 5509: 5483: 5474: 5461: 5452: 5439: 5426: 5413: 5400: 5381: 5370:"Peter Wimsey" 5362: 5350: 5341: 5329: 5317: 5293: 5284: 5250: 5216: 5182: 5180:Salter, p. 255 5173: 5139: 5126: 5117: 5108: 5099: 5065: 5031: 4997: 4963: 4951: 4942: 4933: 4924: 4915: 4906: 4897: 4888: 4879: 4870: 4861: 4852: 4843: 4834: 4825: 4816: 4804: 4795: 4786: 4777: 4768: 4752: 4740: 4731: 4722: 4713: 4704: 4691: 4682: 4673: 4664: 4631: 4622: 4613: 4604: 4592: 4563: 4528: 4519: 4506: 4492: 4483: 4474: 4465: 4456: 4447: 4438: 4429: 4420: 4418:Watson, p. 240 4411: 4409:Watson, p. 113 4402: 4393: 4384: 4372: 4363: 4354: 4345: 4336: 4324: 4315: 4302: 4290: 4281: 4272: 4263: 4254: 4245: 4236: 4217: 4193: 4184: 4175: 4161: 4152: 4139: 4126: 4113: 4104: 4095: 4082: 4069: 4056: 4047: 4038: 4029: 4016: 4003: 3998:The Daily News 3984: 3982:Coomes, p. 173 3970: 3961: 3952: 3943: 3934: 3917: 3908: 3899: 3876: 3867: 3858: 3845: 3839:"The Comedy", 3832: 3823: 3814: 3805: 3781: 3772: 3759: 3746: 3737: 3728: 3716: 3707: 3698: 3689: 3676: 3670:"New Novels", 3663: 3650: 3641: 3629: 3620: 3611: 3599: 3586: 3561: 3552: 3540: 3517: 3508: 3499: 3490: 3488:Pearce, p. 484 3481: 3467: 3454: 3452:Gilbert, p. 47 3445: 3436: 3434:Gilbert, p. 36 3427: 3415: 3406: 3397: 3384: 3371: 3358: 3353:The Daily News 3340: 3338:Gilbert, p. 44 3331: 3318: 3309: 3300: 3291: 3274:Wilson, A. 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In 1930, in 174: 173: 170: 166: 165: 154: 150: 147: 146: 144: 140: 139: 137: 136: 133: 127: 123: 121: 117: 116: 111: 107: 106: 104: 103: 100: 97: 93: 91: 87: 86: 80:(aged 64) 74: 70: 69: 52: 48: 47: 44: 36: 35: 26: 24: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 8013: 8002: 7999: 7997: 7994: 7992: 7989: 7987: 7984: 7982: 7979: 7977: 7974: 7972: 7969: 7967: 7964: 7962: 7959: 7957: 7954: 7952: 7949: 7947: 7944: 7942: 7939: 7937: 7934: 7932: 7929: 7927: 7924: 7922: 7919: 7917: 7914: 7912: 7909: 7907: 7904: 7902: 7899: 7897: 7894: 7892: 7889: 7887: 7886:Churchwardens 7884: 7882: 7879: 7877: 7874: 7872: 7869: 7867: 7864: 7862: 7859: 7857: 7854: 7852: 7849: 7847: 7844: 7842: 7839: 7837: 7834: 7832: 7829: 7827: 7824: 7822: 7819: 7818: 7816: 7800: 7799: 7795: 7792: 7791: 7787: 7784: 7783: 7779: 7776: 7775: 7771: 7768: 7767: 7763: 7762: 7760: 7756: 7749: 7748: 7744: 7741: 7740: 7736: 7733: 7732: 7728: 7725: 7724: 7720: 7719: 7717: 7715: 7709: 7702: 7701: 7700:The Spectator 7696: 7695: 7691: 7688: 7687: 7683: 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