Dorothy L. Sayers
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 0-951-80051-5
- The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951-1957, In the Midst of Life ISBN 0-951-80006-X
- The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time ISBN 0-951-80007-8
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External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Dorothy L. Sayers at the Internet Movie Database
- The Dorothy L. Sayers Society
- Dorothy L Sayers in Galloway—the scene of her novel Five Red Herrings (1931)
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Notes
- ^ Barbara Reynolds (1993). Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 361.
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 1–14
- ^ Dorothy L. Sayers. Inklings. Taylor University. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 43
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 126
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 346
- ^ Umberto Eco (2003). Mouse or Rat? Translation as Negotiation. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 141.
- ^ Dorothy L. Sayers (1949). The Divine Comedy 1: Hell (introduction). London: Pengun Books, 11.
- ^ [1] (accessed 15 April 2008)
- ^ Examples, some hilarious, given in Ch 10 of The Mind of the Maker, including a poet whose solemn ode to the Ark of the Covenant crossing Jordan contains the immortal couplet: "The [something] torrent, leaping in the air / Left the astounded river's bottom bare
- ^ ibid. p 105
- ^ a b Wilson, Edmund. "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" Originally published in New Yorker, January 20, 1945.
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit.
- ^ Randi Sørsdal (2006). From Mystery to Manners: A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers (Masters thesis). University of Bergen, 45.[2]
- ^ Dorothy L. Sayers (1949). Creed or Chaos?. Harcourt, Brace.
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 177
- ^ James Brabazon, Sayers: A Biography, pp 216-219
- ^ Carolyn G. Heilbrun in 'Dorothy L. Sayers: Biography Between the Lines' in Sayers Centenary.
- ^ From a letter Sayers wrote to David Highan, November 27, 1936, published in Sayers' Letters.
- ^ Take away the camel, and all is revealed by Barbara Reynolds at anglicansonline.org (accessed 14 November 2007)
- ^ Barbara Reynolds, op. cit., 262
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References and scholarship
- Op. I by Dorothy Sayers (poetry): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sayers/opi/dls-opi.html
- The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers: http://www.gbt.org/text/sayers.html
- Brabazon, James, Dorothy L. Sayers: a Biography (1980; New York: Avon, 1982) ISBN 978-0-380-58990-6
- Brown, Janice, The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1998) ISBN 0-87338-605-1
- Connelly, Kelly C. "From Detective Fiction to Detective Literature: Psychology in the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margaret Millar." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.3 (Spring 2007): 35-47
- Coomes, David, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life (1992; London: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1997) ISBN 978-0-7459-2241-6
- Dale, Alzine Stone, Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (1993; backinprint.com, 2003) ISBN 978-0595266-03-6
- Dean, Christopher, ed., Encounters with Lord Peter (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) ISBN 0-9518000-0-0
- -- Studies in Sayers: Essays presented to Dr Barbara Reynolds on her 80th Birthday (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) ISBN 0-9518000-1-9
- Gorman, Anita G., and Leslie R. Mateer. "The Medium Is the Message: Busman's Honeymoon as Play, Novel, and Film." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 54-62
- Kenney, Catherine, The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (1990; Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1992) ISBN 0-87338-458-X
- Lennard, John, 'Of Purgatory and Yorkshire: Dorothy L. Sayers and Reginald Hill's Divine Comedy', in Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007), pp. 33-55. ISBN 978-1-84760-038-7
- McGregor, Robert Kuhn & Lewis, Ethan Conundrums for the Long Week-End : England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-87338-665-5
- Reynolds, Barbara, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; rev. eds 1998, 2002) ISBN 0-340-72845-0
- Sørsdal, Randi, From Mystery to Manners: A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, Masters thesis, University of Bergen. [5]
- Young, Laurel. "Dorothy L. Sayers and the New Woman Detective Novel."CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 39-53
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayers, Dorothy Leigh |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1893-06-13 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oxford, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1957-12-17 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Witham, England |
Categories: English crime fiction writers | English mystery writers | English women writers | Copywriters | English Anglicans | Anglo-Catholicism | People from Oxford | People from Essex | Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford | 1893 births | 1957 deaths | Lay theologians | French-English translators | Italian-English translators
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