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...
Friends, Associates
Dorothy L. Sayers
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.
