Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey. What to Read Find Your Next Book ...

By Dorothy L. Sayers Buy Book This is exactly what soothed me about Sayers’s work: She was preoccupied with the question of how, once you realize you will likely never understand those around ...

Downing's 2016 book probing Sayers' work, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers, argues convincingly that Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy because she wrote ...

A gifted public communicator, Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) believed that those who slept through church had no idea what dynamite the gospel really was. Through her plays and essays, she tried to ...

She contributed significantly to Busman’s Honeymoon, and a trip she took with Sayers to Venice in 1937 resulted in the latter’s writing the biting and delightful play Love All. That Moulton devotes ...

Amid the turmoil of the early 20th century, writers Virginia Woolf, H.D., Dorothy L. Sayers, Jane Harrison and Eileen Power created powerful works of fiction and nonfiction. 100 years later, France… ...

In “Gaudy Night,” a classic of the golden age of detective fiction by Dorothy L. Sayers, the heroine, Harriet Vane, wonders whether mystery novels can ever rise to the level of literature ...

MISS DOROTHY L. SAYERS, for the moment breaking free from her pre-occupations with the writing of detective stories and the drama, has presented her numerous public with a War-time essay. Her ...

As president of the Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers led initiation rites featuring ceremonial garb, flickering candles and the spooky presence of Eric, a human skull.

Sayers, by contrast, while writing in the 1930s and ’40s, had access to a new medium through which to evangelize, namely, the radio. In 1938, she was asked by the BBC to write a radio play on ...