Dorothy l sayers biography
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She married Arthur Fleming in In her father died at Christchurch in the Fens, his last parish, and she bought a cottage at Witham, Essex, to accommodate her mother. On the latter's death a year later she moved in herself and bought the house next door, No 22 Newland Street, to throw the two houses into one. There she worked until her death in
Gaudy Night was to be the culmination of the Wimsey saga, but her friend Muriel St Clare Byrne persuaded her to collaborate in putting Lord Peter on the stage in Busman's Honeymoon. The play was successfully launched in December , and she gave up crime writing except for the book of the play and three short stories. With her new financial security she turned thankfully to the work for which she had been trained.
The stage fascinated her. She had already been asked to write a play, The Zeal of Thy House, for the Canterbury Festival. She followed this with six more, up to the Colchester Festival play, The Emperor Constant • English novelist, translator and Christian writer (–) press photograph Oswald Arthur "Mac" Fleming[n 1] &#; &#; Dorothy Leigh Sayers (SAIRZ;[n 2] 13 June – 17 December ) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French. She worked as an advertising copywriter between and before success as an author brought her financial independence. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in Between then and she wrot • “faith fryst vatten not primarily a ‘comfort,’ but a truth about ourselves. Only when we know what we truly believe can we decide whether it is ‘comforting.’” Dorothy L. Sayers, Unpopular Opinions () Considered one of the foremost modern detective writers and perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey novels, Dorothy Leigh Sayers was also an accomplished and popular playwright, religious commentator, and scholar whose translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy is considered unmatched in quality and readability. Sayers attended Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in with first class honors in modern languages. Not caring for the academic life, she held a variety of jobs in publishing, advertising, and teaching. Frustrated with several relationships, worried about how to support herself, and unsure of her abilities, she nonetheless began writing detective fiction, and in her first Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Whose Bo
Dorothy L. Sayers
Born Dorothy Leigh Sayers
()13 June
Oxford, EnglandDied 17 December () (aged&#;64)
Witham, Essex, EnglandOccupation Alma&#;mater Somerville College, Oxford Genre Spouse Children 1 Dorothy L. Sayers
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