Dorothy L. Sayers

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Standard Name: Sayers, Dorothy L.
Birth Name: Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Pseudonym: H. P. Rallentando
DLS is best-known as a pre-second-world-war detective novelist, particularly as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. But the financial success she enjoyed from these novels permitted her to turn to other genres and topics later in her career, including plays and radio dramas on religious themes, other Christian writings, and an important translation of Dante .
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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She also wrote poetry and reviews.

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Publishing Clemence Dane
CD contributed to The Scoop, a collaborative, experimental radio mystery play organized by Dorothy L. Sayers .
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
5
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Publishing Doreen Wallace
She began writing this book during her first pregnancy, by which time she felt she had enough experience of life, though limited, and knowledge of country people, though limited, to have something more to say...
Publishing Muriel Jaeger
MJ , as H. Hunter, had a letter printed in The New Witness which challenged theological objections by Catholic poet Theodore Maynard to Catholic Tales by her friend Dorothy Sayers .
Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim…’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.
17
, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59.
51, n10
Reception Laura Riding
Among many personal replies was one from Naomi Mitchison , who visited Riding to argue that women are not innately inside but have been made so by being kept out of public activities, that politics...
Reception Margery Allingham
Early critics of MA 's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers and...
Textual Features Dorothy Whipple
DW also presents, with deliberate naivete, the ups and downs of her own career: her high points and failures of confidence. As her confidence grows, her narrative embraces funny anecdotes, moving moments, penetrating insights, and...
Textual Features Wilkie Collins
This book, in which the effects of British colonial rule in India reverberate within English provincial life, is counted amongst the first detective novels, and proved as popular as The Woman in White. In...
Textual Features Antonia Fraser
In her detective-story guise, Fraser sees herself as part of a women's tradition in the genre, and names as influences a number of writers who are known for interest in human psychology and a high...
Textual Features Rose Macaulay
The narrator, Laurie, is an alienated, sceptical, modern young woman, whose gender is, however, left largely inexplicit. She is recovering from the ending of a twelve-year adulterous relationship about which she still feels guilty, yearning...
Textual Features Margery Allingham
The plot (on which MA consulted Dorothy Sayers when the war work of each happened to throw them together) features Nazi designs on the British currency.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Brilliantly forged bank notes are to be circulated throughout...
Textual Features Georgette Heyer
Superintendent Hannasyde and Sergeant Hemingway make their first appearances here. They become series characters in Heyer's next four detective novels: Behold, Here's Poison! (1936), They Found Him Dead (1937), A Blunt Instrument (1938), and No...
Textual Production Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers invited AC to contribute a segment to a BBC radio crime-serial entitled Behind the Screen.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
195
Textual Production Muriel Jaeger
As a member of Somerville 's Mutual Admiration Society MJ must already have been writing, since the group existed for the purpose of mutual literary encouragement. She collaborated with Dorothy Sayers in writing, and performing...
Textual Production Muriel Jaeger
Many letters from Dorothy Sayers to MJ survive at the Marion E. Wade Center , Wheaton College , in Illinois, USA. Sayers apparently did not keep her letters from Jaeger, since none are extant.
Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim…’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.
17
, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, pp. 47-59.
58
Textual Production P. D. James
Unnatural Causes, PDJ 's third mystery novel, is in large part a parody of classical mysteries, and particularly the works of Dorothy L. Sayers .
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne.
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