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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Emmuska Baroness Orczy
EBO claimed that English readers (men for the most part) had told her that she had created a perfect representation of an English gentleman.
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness. Links in the Chain of Life. Hutchinson, 1947.
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Arnold Bennett , discoursing on the greater importance...
Intertextuality and Influence Kathleen Nott
Here KN writes a lively style, with ingenious images and examples, paradoxes like giving a name a bad dog (by which she means taking a concept like Liberalism or Science and using it pejoratively),
Nott, Kathleen. The Emperor’s Clothes. Heinemann, 1953.
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Intertextuality and Influence P. D. James
PDJ followed the English tradition of detective-story writing that has continued from the 1920s and 1930s, a genre in which many women have held dominant positions. She spoke of her adolescent reading as influenced in...
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
E. M. Delafield writes that during the 1940s CY retained wide popularity: that the London Library 's copies of her books were often checked out by readers, and that when Delafield wrote to the Times...
Literary responses Ngaio Marsh
A review of detective novels in The Times (subtitled Deadlier than the Male) invoked the proud position of women among writers of this genre, citing Dorothy L. Sayers , Agatha Christie , Margery Allingham
Literary responses Flora Macdonald Mayor
Rediscovery of FMM was fostered by Sybil Oldfield , who in 1984 published an extensive account of Mayor's life and works (which she narrated in parallel with those of Mayor's contemporary Mary Sheepshanks ). During...
Literary responses Monica Furlong
Though she remained to some degree persona non grata with the Established Church , MF received an honorary doctorate in divinity from the EpiscopalianGeneral Theological Seminary in New York, as well as an...
Literary responses Patricia Wentworth
The dustjacket of this novel bears a list of encomiums on Miss Silver: [t]hat shrewd lady of lavender and Honiton lace (The Star), lovable, indefatigable and undeceivable (Books and Bookmen), [n]ow...
Literary responses Kathleen Nott
This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2705 (4 December 1953): 773
The Times responded with a front-page article (anonymous, as all...
Literary responses Georgette Heyer
Laski argued that the taste for popular fiction stemmed from the fact that the serious modern novel had decided to deny itself the amenity of the shapely story satisfactorily resolved, so that compulsive novel readers...
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...
Material Conditions of Writing Doreen Wallace
Eileen Wallace (later Doreen) began writing poetry as a child, generally to console herself for unhappiness.
Shepherd, June. Doreen Wallace, 1897-1989: Writer and Social Campaigner. Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
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At Oxford she formed, with Leon Geach and Dorothy Sayers , the Rhyme Club , whose pastime was...
Occupation Dante Alighieri
Dante's known poetry begins with La vita nuova (The New Life in English), a work in both verse and prose about his famous love for the married Beatrice, which was probably finished by 1293...
Occupation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
Women contributors ranged widely: Rebecca West , Stella Benson , Cicely Hamilton , Members of Parliament Lady Nancy Astor and Ellen Wilkinson , Virginia Woolf , Naomi Mitchison , E. M. Delafield , Rose Macaulay
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...

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Texts

Dante Alighieri,. The Divine Comedy. I: Hell. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin Books, 1957.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Emperor Constantine. Victor Gollancz, 1951.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Greatest Drama Ever Staged. Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Editor Reynolds, Barbara, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Man Born to be King. Gollancz, 1943.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Mind of the Maker. Methuen, 1941.
Collins, Wilkie, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The Moonstone. Dent; Dutton, 1967.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Nine Tailors. Gollancz, 1934.
Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol.
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The Song of Roland. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Penguin, 1957.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Ernest Benn, 1928.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Zeal of Thy House. Gollancz, 1937.
Sayers, Dorothy L., and Jill Paton Walsh. Thrones, Dominations. Hodder and Stoughton, 1998.
Saintsbury, George. Tristan in Brittany. Translator Sayers, Dorothy L., Ernest Benn, 1929.
Sayers, Dorothy L. Unpopular Opinions. Gollancz, 1946.
Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose Body?. Boni and Liveright, 1923.
Sayers, Dorothy L. Whose Body?. Unwin, 1923.