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, 1981.
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...
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.
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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...
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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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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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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
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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
.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1967
Gidez, Richard. P. D. James. Twayne, 1986.
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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
...
