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.
Black-and-white photo of Dorothy L. Sayers. Seated and looking off-camera with a slight smile, she wears large circular earrings and a dark blazer.
Bronze statue of Dorothy L. Sayers in Witham, England.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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 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.
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Other Life Event Agatha Christie
Her car was found overturned at the side of a road near Guildford in Surrey shortly after she disappeared. Searchers, including Dorothy Sayers , looked for her in the surrounding fields and woods. She was...
Literary responses Agatha Christie
Some critics felt that the novel's twist was a rotten, unfair trick. The London News Chronicle reviewer observed that it was a tasteless and unforgiving let-down by a writer we had grown to admire.But...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Agatha Christie
Although AC was supposed to be writing propaganda, her opinions on her own chosen genre were too strong to be muzzled. Having begun with praise of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , John Dickson Carr ...
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.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
His article, Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon, which covered seven novels she had published since 1862, made a famous personal attack in asserting that her work evidenced familiarity with a very low type of female...
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...
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...

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