At Oxford DLS
met Muriel Jaeger
, whose nickname was Jim. Their friendship continued, especially when DLS
moved to London in 1920. Muriel encouraged Dorothy during the composition of her first novel.
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. Hodder and Stoughton, 1993.
53-4, 99, 102, 176
Performance of text
Muriel Jaeger
This play was staged the same year in England: at the Palace Court Theatre
in Bournemouth, where MJ
's friend Dorothy Rowe
was theatre director.
Reynolds, Barbara. “"‘Dear Jim ’ The Reconstruction of A Friendship”. Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.
17
, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59.