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She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante 's Divine Comedy to be her best work. Fletcher draws our attention to Sayers’ concern to formulate a theology of work, work that would be accompanied by a sense of dignity and accomplishment for men and women. Made in the image of the Creator God, both men and women she saw as creators or artists in relation to their respective projects and accomplishments. Dermott Shideler. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford University, Dorothy Sayers pursued her goals whether or not what she wanted to do was ordinarily understood to be. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both men and women, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it.
'Central to Sayers's reflections is the conviction that both men and women are first of all human beings and must be regarded as essentially much more alike than different. We are to be true not so much to our sex as to our humanity. The proper role of both women and men, in her view, is to find the work for which they are suited and to do it. Though written several decades ago, these essays still offer in Sayers's piquant style a sensible and conciliatory approach to ongoing gender issues.' -BOOK JACKET. Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's.
Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. In 1915 and an M.A.
During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language.
Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction-a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters-Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money.
Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol.
Sayers Born ( 1893-06-13)13 June 1893, UK Died 17 December 1957 ( 1957-12-17) (aged 64), UK Occupation, copywriter, Language Nationality Genre Literary movement Spouse Mac Fleming (m. 1926–50, his death) Children John Anthony Fleming (1924 - 1984) Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually pronounced, although Sayers herself preferred and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation; 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was a renowned, translator and. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and, that remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of 's to be her best work. She is also known for her, literary criticism and essays. Where Dorothy's father was headmaster of the Choir School Sayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Head Master's House, her father, the Rev.
Henry Sayers, M.A., being a chaplain of Christ Church and headmaster of the Choir School. When she was six he started teaching her Latin. She grew up in the tiny village of -cum-Earith in, after her father was given the living there as rector. The Regency rectory is an elegant building, while the church graveyard features the surnames of several characters from her mystery. The proximity of the and invites comparison with the book's vivid description of a massive flood around the village. From 1909 she was educated at, a boarding school in. Her father later moved to the less luxurious living of, also in.
In 1912, she won a scholarship to, and studied modern languages and medieval literature. She finished with first-class honours in 1915.
Although women could not be awarded degrees at that time, Sayers was among the first to receive a degree when the position changed a few years later, and in 1920 she graduated as an. Her experience of Oxford academic life eventually inspired her penultimate Peter Wimsey novel,.
Her father was from, and her mother (Helen Mary Leigh—whence Sayers' second name) was born at 'The Chestnuts', Millbrook, to Frederick Leigh, a solicitor, whose family roots were in the Isle of Wight. Dorothy's aunt Amy, her mother's sister, married Henry Richard Shrimpton. Career Poetry, teaching, and advertisements. Dorothy Sayers' first book, of poetry, was published in 1916 as OP. I by in Oxford.
Later Sayers worked for Blackwell's and then as a teacher in several locations including, France. Sayers' longest employment was from 1922 to 1931 as a at 's advertising agency in London.
This was located at International Buildings, Kingsway, London. Sayers was quite successful as an advertiser. Her collaboration with artist resulted in 'The Mustard Club' for Mustard and the 'Zoo' advertisements, variations of which still appear today.
One famous example was the, his bill arching under a glass of Guinness, with Sayers's jingle. If he can say as you can Guinness is good for you How grand to be a Toucan Just think what Toucan do Sayers is also credited with coining the slogan 'It pays to advertise!' She used the advertising industry as the setting of, where she describes the role of truth in advertising. the firm of Pym's Publicity, Ltd., Advertising Agents.
Pym is a man of rigid morality—except, of course, as regards his profession, whose essence is to tell plausible lies for money—' 'How about truth in advertising?' 'Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising. Is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.' Detective fiction.
1st edition cover of the novel Sayers began working out the plot of her first novel some time in 1920–21. The seeds of the plot for can be seen in a letter Sayers wrote on 22 January 1921: My detective story begins brightly, with a fat lady found dead in her bath with nothing on but her. Now why did she wear pince-nez in her bath? If you can guess, you will be in a position to lay hands upon the murderer, but he's a very cool and cunning fellow. 101, Reynolds) burst upon the world of detective fiction with an explosive 'Oh, damn!' And continued to engage readers in eleven novels and two sets of short stories; the final novel ended with a very different 'Oh, damn!' Sayers once commented that Lord Peter was a mixture of and, which is most evident in the first five novels.
However, it is evident through Lord Peter's development as a rounded character that he existed in Sayers's mind as a living, breathing, fully human being. Sayers introduced detective novelist in. Sayers remarked more than once that she had developed the 'husky voiced, dark-eyed' Harriet to put an end to Lord Peter via matrimony. But in the course of writing, Sayers imbued Lord Peter and Harriet with so much life that she was never able, as she put it, to 'see Lord Peter exit the stage'. Sayers did not content herself with writing pure detective stories; she explored the difficulties of First World War veterans in, discussed the ethics of advertising in, and advocated women's education (then a controversial subject) and role in society in.
In Gaudy Night, Miss Barton writes a book attacking the Nazi doctrine of, which restricted women's roles to family activities, and in many ways the whole of can be read as an attack on Nazi social doctrine. The book has been described as 'the first feminist mystery novel.' Sayers's Christian and academic interests are also apparent in her detective series. In, one of her most well-known detective novels, the plot unfolds largely in and around an old church dating back to the Middle Ages. Of bells also forms an important part of the novel. In, the and the principles of are explained.
Her short story Absolutely Elsewhere refers to the fact that (in the language of modern physics) the only perfect alibi for a crime is to be outside its, while The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will contains a literary crossword puzzle. Sayers also wrote a number of short stories about, a wine salesman who solves mysteries. Cover of Are Women Human?, which contains two of Sayers' feminist essays Sayers's most notable religious book is probably (1941) which explores at length the analogy between a human creator (especially a and plays) and the doctrine of in creation. She suggests that any human creation of significance involves the Idea, the Energy (roughly: the process of writing and that actual 'incarnation' as a material object) and the Power (roughly: the process of reading/hearing and the effect it has on the audience) and that this 'trinity' has useful analogies with the theological Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In addition to the ingenious thinking in working out this analogy, the book contains striking examples drawn from her own experiences as a writer and elegant criticisms of writers when the balance between Idea, Energy and Power is not, in her view, adequate. She defends strongly the view that literary creatures have a nature of their own, vehemently replying to a well-wisher who wanted Lord Peter to 'end up a convinced Christian'.
'From what I know of him, nothing is more unlikely. Peter is not the Ideal Man'. Is a restatement of basic historical, based on the, the, and the, similar to but somewhat more densely written than '; both sought clearly and concisely to explain the central doctrines of Christianity to those who had encountered them in distorted or watered-down forms, on the grounds that if you are going to criticize something you had best know what it is first. Her very influential essay The Lost Tools of Learning has been used by many schools in the US as a basis for the, reviving the medieval subjects (grammar, logic and rhetoric) as tools to enable the analysis and mastery of every other subject. Sayers also wrote three volumes of commentaries about Dante, religious essays, and several, of which may be the best known. Her religious works did so well at presenting the orthodox position that, in 1943, the offered her a, which she declined.
In 1950, however, she accepted an honorary from the. Although she never describes herself as such, her economic and political ideas, rooted as they are in the classical Christian doctrines of Creation and Incarnation, are very close to the Chesterton-Belloc theory of. Criticism of Sayers Criticism of background material in her novels. The literary and academic themes in Sayers's novels have appealed to a great many readers, but by no means to all. Poet and philosopher were critics of her novels, for example. A savage attack on Sayers's writing ability came from the prominent American and man of letters, in a well-known 1945 article in called Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?
He briefly writes about her famous novel, saying 'I set out to read it in the hope of tasting some novel excitement, and I declare that it seems to me one of the dullest books I have ever encountered in any field. The first part is all about bell-ringing as it is practised in English churches and contains a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopedia article on campanology. I skipped a good deal of this, and found myself skipping, also, a large section of the conversations between conventional English village characters.' Wilson continues 'I had often heard people say that Dorothy Sayers wrote well. But, really, she does not write very well: it is simply that she is more consciously literary than most of the other detective-story writers and that she thus attracts attention in a field which is mostly on a sub-literary level.' The academic critic, in a review of Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon published in the critical journal Scrutiny, criticises Sayers in more specific terms.
The basis of Leavis' criticism is that Sayers' fiction is 'popular and romantic while pretending to realism.' Leavis argues that Sayers presents academic life as 'sound and sincere because it is scholarly', a place of 'invulnerable standards of taste charging the charmed atmosphere'. But, Leavis says, this is unrealistic: 'If such a world ever existed, and I should be surprised to hear as much, it does no longer, and to give substance to a lie or to perpetrate a dead myth is to do no one any service really.' Leavis suggests that 'people in the academic world who earn their livings by scholarly specialities are not as a general thing wiser, better, finer, decenter or in any way more estimable than those of the same social class outside', but that Sayers is popular among educated readers because 'the accepted pretence is that things are as Miss Sayers relates'. Leavis comments that 'only best-seller novelists could have such illusions about human nature'. Critic Sean Latham has defended Sayers, arguing that Wilson 'chooses arrogant condescension over serious critical consideration' and suggests that both he and Leavis, rather than seriously assessing Sayers' writing, simply objected to a detective-story writer having pretensions beyond what they saw as her role of popular-culture 'hack'. Latham claims that, in their eyes, 'Sayers's primary crime lay in her attempt to transform the detective novel into something other than an ephemeral bit of popular culture'.
Criticism of major characters. Sayers' heroic detective, has been criticized for being too perfect; over time the various talents he displays grow too numerous for some readers to swallow. Also expressed his distaste for Lord Peter in his criticism of: 'There was also a dreadful stock English nobleman of the casual and debonair kind, with the embarrassing name of Lord Peter Wimsey, and, although he was the focal character in the novel. I had to skip a good deal of him, too.'
Wimsey is rich, well-educated, charming, and brave, as well as an accomplished musician, an exceptional athlete, and a notable lover. He does, however, have serious flaws: the habit of over-engaging in what other characters regard as silly prattling, a nervous disorder and a fear of responsibility.
The latter two both originate from his service in the First World War. The fear of responsibility turns out to be a serious obstacle to his maturation into full adulthood (a fact not lost on the character himself).
The character, featured in four novels, has been criticized for being a mere stand-in for the author. Many of the themes and settings of Sayers's novels, particularly those involving Harriet Vane, seem to reflect Sayers's own concerns and experiences. Vane, like Sayers, was educated at Oxford (unusual for a woman at the time) and is a mystery writer. Vane initially meets Wimsey when she is tried for poisoning her lover ( ); he insists on participating in the defence preparations for her re-trial, where he falls for her but she rejects him. In she collaborates with Wimsey to solve a murder but still rejects his proposals of marriage. She eventually accepts ( ) and marries him ( ). Alleged racism and anti-Semitism in Sayers's writing.
Biographers of Sayers have disagreed as to whether Sayers was anti-Semitic. In Sayers: A Biography, James Brabazon argues that Sayers was anti-Semitic.
This is rebutted by Carolyn G. Heilbrun in Dorothy L. Sayers: Biography Between the Lines. McGregor and Lewis argue in Conundrums for the Long Week-End that Sayers was not anti-Semitic but used popular British stereotypes of class and ethnicity. In 1936, a translator wanted 'to soften the thrusts against the Jews' in; Sayers, surprised, replied that the only characters 'treated in a favourable light were the Jews!' Personal life. Blue plaque for Dorothy L.
Sayers on 23 & 24 Gt. James Street, WC1 On 3 January 1924, at the age of 30, Sayers secretly gave birth to an illegitimate son, John Anthony (later surnamed Fleming, though his father was Bill White), who was cared for as a child by her aunt and cousin, Amy and Ivy Amy Shrimpton, and passed off as her nephew to friends. Two years later, after publishing her first two detective novels, Sayers married Captain Oswald Atherton 'Mac' Fleming, a Scottish journalist whose professional name was 'Atherton Fleming.' The wedding took place on 8 April 1926 at Register Office, London. Fleming was divorced with two children. Sayers and Fleming lived in the flat at 24 Great James Street in that Sayers maintained for the rest of her life. Both worked, Fleming as an author and journalist and Sayers as an advertising copywriter and author.
Over time, Fleming's health worsened, largely due to his First World War service, and as a result he became unable to work. Sayers was a good friend of and several of the other. On some occasions, Sayers joined Lewis at meetings of the. Lewis said he read every Easter, but he claimed to be unable to appreciate detective stories.
Read some of the Wimsey novels but scorned the later ones, such as. Fleming died on 9 June 1950, at Sunnyside Cottage (now 24 Newland Street), Witham, Essex.
Sayers died suddenly of a on 17 December 1957 at the same place, aged 64. Fleming was buried in, while Dorothy's remains were cremated and her ashes buried beneath the tower of, London, where she had been a for many years. Upon her death it was revealed that her nephew, John Anthony, was her son; he was the sole beneficiary under his mother's will. He died on 26 November 1984 at age 60, in St. Francis's Hospital,. Legacy Some of the character 's observations reveal Sayers poking fun at the mystery, even while adhering to various conventions.
Sayers' work was frequently parodied by her contemporaries., the author of the early modern detective novel, wrote a parody entitled 'Greedy Night' (1938). Her characters, and Sayers herself, have been placed in some other works, including:.
has published four novels about Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane: (1998), a completion of Sayers' manuscript left unfinished at her death; (2002), based on the 'Wimsey Papers', letters ostensibly written by various Wimseys and published in during the Second World War; (2010), based on Lord Peter's 'first case', briefly referred to in a number of Sayers' novels; and a sequel (2013) in which Peter and Harriet have finally become the Duke and Duchess of Denver. Wimsey appears (together with and ) in 's comic novel Jeeves (after, the of the canon). Wimsey makes a in Laurie R. King's, one of a series of books relating the further adventures of. Sayers appears, with, as a in Dorothy and Agatha ISBN 0-451-40314-2, a murder mystery by, in which a man is murdered in Sayers' dining room and she has to solve the crime. Wimsey is mentioned by 's character in the 1945 film as one of three possible detectives waiting for him in the hall, outside the apartment of the character played.
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(1928; 12 short stories). (1930). (1931). (1932). (1933; 12 short stories, 4 including Lord Peter). (1933).
(1934) - a Peal was rung on 13 June 2004 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of publication. 1. (1935).
(1937; the play on which it was based, co-written with, was published in Love All, Together with Busman's Honeymoon, ed. Alzina Stone Dale, 1984). (1939; 17 short stories, 2 including Lord Peter; editions published after 1972 usually adds 'Talboys', the last story she wrote with Lord Peter). (1972; 3 short stories). (1972; the first edition contains 20 Lord Peter short stories; the second edition includes all 21 Lord Peter short stories by adding 'Talboys'). Sayers on Holmes, Essays and Fiction on Sherlock Holmes, introd. Alzina Stone Dale (2001; booklet of 54 pages reprinting various Holmesian essays by Sayers, and including a previously unpublished BBC radio script, broadcast in 1954, in which an 8-year-old Lord Peter brings Holmes a problem of a missing cat).
(1998; begun by Sayers in 1936, completed by and published in 1998.). a series of fictional letters by members of the Wimsey Family, published in in the early months of the Second World War, which are actually essays expressing Sayers' views on various subjects. Sayers: the Complete Stories (2002; all 21 Lord Peter short stories, the 11 Montague Egg stories, and 12 others). Sayers also wrote the scenario for the film (1935), a Lord Peter story which was never published in book form, and whose script was altered greatly by the film company from her original. Five volumes of Sayers' letters have been published, edited by Barbara Reynolds. The Letters of Dorothy L.
Sayers: 1899–1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist ISBN 0-312-14001-0. The Letters of Dorothy L.
Sayers: 1937–1943, From Novelist to Playwright ISBN 0-312-18127-2. The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring ISBN 0-9518005-1-5.
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life ISBN 0-9518000-6-X.
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time ISBN 0-9518000-7-8 Notes.