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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
.
"Dorothy L. Sayers, statue"
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Muriel Jaeger | MJ
, as H. Hunter, had a letter printed in The New Witness which challenged theological objections by Catholic poet Theodore Maynard
to Catholic Tales by her friend Dorothy Sayers
. 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. 51, n10 |
| Publishing | Doreen Wallace | She began writing this book during her first pregnancy, by which time she felt she had enough experience of life, though limited, and knowledge of country people, though limited, to have something more to say... |
| Publishing | Clemence Dane | CD
contributed to The Scoop, a collaborative, experimental radio mystery play organized by Dorothy L. Sayers
. Sayers, Dorothy L. et al. “The Scoop: Parts I-XII”. The Listener, Vol. 5 . |
| Reception | Laura Riding | Among many personal replies was one from Naomi Mitchison
, who visited Riding to argue that women are not innately inside but have been made so by being kept out of public activities, that politics... |
| Reception | Margery Allingham | Early critics of MA
's work saw her as a young revitaliser of the detective form, along with Nicholas Blake
and Michael Innes. Later she was linked with the slightly older Dorothy Sayers
and... |
| Textual Features | Rose Macaulay | The narrator, Laurie, is an alienated, sceptical, modern young woman, whose gender is, however, left largely inexplicit. She is recovering from the ending of a twelve-year adulterous relationship about which she still feels guilty, yearning... |
| Textual Features | Antonia Fraser | In her detective-story guise, Fraser sees herself as part of a women's tradition in the genre, and names as influences a number of writers who are known for interest in human psychology and a high... |
| Textual Features | Margery Allingham | The plot (on which MA
consulted Dorothy Sayers
when the war work of each happened to throw them together) features Nazi designs on the British currency. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Textual Features | Dorothy Whipple | DW
also presents, with deliberate naivete, the ups and downs of her own career: her high points and failures of confidence. As her confidence grows, her narrative embraces funny anecdotes, moving moments, penetrating insights, and... |
| Textual Features | Georgette Heyer | Superintendent Hannasyde and Sergeant Hemingway make their first appearances here. They become series characters in Heyer's next four detective novels: Behold, Here's Poison! (1936), They Found Him Dead (1937), A Blunt Instrument (1938), and No... |
| Textual Features | Wilkie Collins | This book, in which the effects of British colonial rule in India reverberate within English provincial life, is counted amongst the first detective novels, and proved as popular as The Woman in White. In... |
| Textual Production | Q. D. Leavis | In her essays, reviews, introductions, and lectures, QDL
also developed varied critiques of such authors as Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot
, Charlotte Yonge
, Marie Corelli
, Edith Wharton
, Naomi Mitchison
, Amabel Williams-Ellis |
| Textual Production | Antonia Fraser | 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, 1988–2003. (1988) “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 276 |
| Textual Production | L. T. Meade | LTM
also wrote mysteries jointly with Robert Eustace (Eustace Robert Barton
), both in the form of magazine stories and of novels published with Ward, Lock and Co.
The latter include A Master of... |
| Textual Production | Jan Morris | More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less... |
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