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, 1981.
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She also wrote poetry and reviews.
Bronze statue of Dorothy L. Sayers in Witham, England.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW has specialized in adapting and abridging novels for radio. Between 1980 and 2004 she adapted a wide array of fiction by women writers, including works by Jane Austen , Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
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, 1874–1987.
1967
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986.
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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.
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, Marion E. Wade Center of Wheaton College, 2000, pp. 47-59.
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Textual Production Clemence Dane
CD , with eleven more members of the Detection Club (including Dorothy L. Sayers , Agatha Christie , G. K. Chesterton , Anthony Berkeley , Freeman Wills Crofts , G. D. H. and M. I. Cole
Textual Production Storm Jameson
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, 1970.
524
The resulting volume includes work by Phyllis Bentley ,...
Textual Production E. B. C. Jones
Her contributors included Jane Barlow , Frank Betts , Elizabeth Bridges (later Daryush) , M. St Clare Byrne , Elsa L. Duff , A. P. Herbert , Aldous Huxley , E. H. W. Meyerstein ,...
Textual Production Doreen Wallace
DW campaigned against the system of tithe payments during the 1930s in many newspaper and magazine articles and in speeches at public occasions. Her long-time reviewing of books for The Times came to an end...
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 ...

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