Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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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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...
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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.
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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
.
Jameson had been approached by the Ministry of Information
once the USA had entered World War II, for suggestions on how to cement Anglo-American relations.
Jameson, Storm. Journey from the North. Harper and Row.
In Oxford Blood, AF
dared comparison with Gaudy Night, one of Dorothy L. Sayers
's most popular detective novels, by bringing her graduate heroine back into the university world which was a formative influence on her.
Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
(1988)
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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
...