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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Naomi Royde-Smith | Tales of Nightmare and the Borderland of the Mind, edited by Dorothy L. Sayers
in 1929, included NRS
's story Proof, which is available online on sites specialising in horror fiction, and is... |
Cultural formation | Doreen Wallace | By the time DW
became a student at Oxford she was a convinced unbeliever, given to stubborn argument with the Christian Dorothy L. Sayers
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989. 57 |
Education | Doreen Wallace | At Somerville DW
became a close friend of Dorothy Sayers
(their religious and political disagreements later drove them apart) and in her circle met Vera Brittain
, Winifred Holtby
, and theSitwells
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989. 57 |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | With the onset of war, the town had largely been emptied of male students, making women a more visible presence around the university. Somerville had a tradition of turning out successful women writers; in entering... |
Education | Vera Brittain | Sh formed a friendship there with Dorothy Sayers
. Leonardi, Susan J. Dangerous by Degrees: Women at Oxford and the Somerville College Novelists. Rutgers University Press, 1989. 51 |
Education | Muriel Jaeger | The BA course lasted for three years, but MJ
stayed on for a fourth year, probably because of interruptions from ill health. At Somerville she formed friendships with Charis Barnett, later Frankenburg
(whose autobiography, Not... |
Education | Barbara Pym | BP
responded strongly to the intellectual and social opportunities available at university. In her diary (begun in in the year she went up to Oxford and continued for most of her life) she wrote: Oxford... |
Fictionalization | Doreen Wallace | She presented a copy of each of her books to her husband
, inscribed: R. H. Rash, with love from the author. Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 99 |
Friends, Associates | Doreen Wallace | DW
's close friendships with Winifred Holtby
and Leon Geach
lasted until their untimely deaths. But that with Dorothy Sayers
ended in estrangement on religious and political grounds: the final straw was apparently DW
's... |
Friends, Associates | Doreen Wallace | DW
later cherished epistolary friendships with other writers like Giles Dixey
and Roy Winstanley
. She formed a close bond with another, Janet Hitchman
, when, after reading her autobiography and sympathising with her struggles... |
Friends, Associates | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
was a contemporary and close friend of Dorothy L. Sayers
, who dedicated several works to her. They include a poem about the way their shared Oxford experience was vanishing into the past (Jaeger... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Pitter | RP
knew T. S. Eliot
well enough to enjoy a courtly encounter with him at a bus stop, but she felt his great innovations had not necessarily been a good thing for English poetry, and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | P. D. James | PDJ
followed the English tradition of detective-story writing that has continued from the 1920s and 1930s, a genre in which many women have held dominant positions. She spoke of her adolescent reading as influenced in... |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. M. Delafield | The genre of the Diary was widely imitated by writers in the 1930s. One critic has detected its influence in the details of rural household problems which intrude upon both love and detection in Dorothy L. Sayers |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | This book reflects MF
's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a... |