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Sayers took a first-class honors degree at Oxford in in modern languages and received both a B.

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Sayers was among the first women to be granted Oxford degrees. She was a founder, and until her death, President of the Detection Club. The Detection Club sought to establish the rules by which the profession functioned and thrived, and raising the basic levels of the art form by insisting that the fictional detective solve the complex crime through cerebration and deductive reasoning, rather than depend upon some sort of deus ex machine.

Chesterton, and Ronald A. Knox, and among their activities was the writing of communal novels of detection, for which each member would contribute a particular chapter.

Most of her unpublished works including her letters are held in the Marion E. Works by Dorothy L. Peter is not the Ideal Man". Creed or Chaos? Lewis ' Mere Christianity. Both sought to explain the central doctrines of Christianity, clearly and concisely, 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 influential essay "The Lost Tools of Learning" [29] has been used by many schools in the US as a basis for the classical education movement , reviving the medieval trivium 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 plays , of which The Man Born to Be King may be the best known. Her religious works did so well at presenting the orthodox Anglican position that, in , the Archbishop of Canterbury offered her a Lambeth doctorate in divinity , which she declined.

In , however, she accepted an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Durham. Her economic and political ideas are rooted in the classical Christian doctrines of Creation and Incarnation, and are close to the Chesterton—Belloc theory of Distributism [30] — although she never describes herself as a Distributist. The poet W. Auden and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein were notable critics of her novels.

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The academic critic Q. Leavis criticises Sayers in more specific terms, in a review of Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon published in the critical journal Scrutiny , saying her fiction is "popular and romantic while pretending to realism. The critic Sean Latham has defended Sayers, arguing that Wilson and Leavis simply objected to a detective story writer having pretensions beyond what they saw as her role of popular culture "hack". Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's heroic detective, has been criticized for being too perfect; over time, the various talents that he displays grow too numerous for some readers to swallow.

Edmund Wilson also expressed his distaste for Lord Peter in his criticism of The Nine Tailors : "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. The character Harriet Vane , 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 initially meets Wimsey when she is tried for poisoning her lover Strong Poison ; he insists on participating in the defence preparations for her re-trial, where he falls for her but she rejects him.

In Have His Carcase , she collaborates with Wimsey to solve a murder but still rejects his proposals of marriage.

She eventually accepts Gaudy Night and marries him Busman's Honeymoon. Biographers of Sayers have disagreed as to whether Sayers was anti-Semitic. This conclusion is supported by Carolyn G. Heilbrun in Dorothy L. Sayers: Biography Between the Lines , [39] who agrees with his assessment of anti-Semitism, but dissents from the excuses that he made for it.

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In a translator wanted "to soften the thrusts against the Jews" in Whose Body? In London in she entered into an unhappy affair with Russian emigre Imagist poet John Cournos who moved in literary circles with Ezra Pound and his contemporaries.

Her affront at his subsequent marriage to a fellow crime writer—after claiming to disdain both monogamy and detective fiction—has been documented in her collected letters, [41] an experience fictionalized a decade later in her novel Strong Poison [42] and in Cournos' The Devil is an English Gentleman , published in In she was in a relationship with Denstone College graduate, part-time automobile salesman William "Bill" White, a "rotten charmer" [44] whom she presented to her parents.

In exchange for the promise to never see Bill again, Mrs White invited Sayers to a guest house in her hometown of Southborne during the last stages of pregnancy and arranged for her own brother, Dr Murray Wilson, to attend the birth at Tuckton Lodge, a nursing-home in Ilford Lane, Southbourne. Dramatising a murder mystery presents certain technical challenges. Much of the novel consists of exposition, as various characters offer their impressions of the dead man and their recollections of his last days and meals.

Flynn translates all this to the stage using a variety of methods. In the opening scene, for example, characters appear sequentially on stage and briefly narrate one aspect of the case before taking their seats in the courtroom. Many short scenes feature Wimsey interviewing witnesses and suspects. At other points, Lord Peter addresses the audience directly on the subject of the developing investigation. This struck me as less effective, though it might have been hampered by the fact that the actor struggled throughout the evening to recall his lines.

Far more compelling was the sequence in which Miss Climpson, played with just the right mixture of propriety and pluck by Mary M. In the novel, these events are narrated by way of a series of letters to Lord Peter, written in the unforgettable, much-emphasized style that Sayers borrowed wholesale from one of her own aunts. Flynn preserves the epistolary form but deftly combines the letters with onstage action. The actors varied considerably in their ability to do this successfully, especially when attempting British accents, but there were two particular standouts.

Bunter, as played by John O'Halloran, was one. Another standout was Hannah Westlock, the honest parlourmaid, as played by Steph Grinley. Though it is a small part, Grinley made it memorable with consistently spot-on expression.

Philip Boyes, the murder victim, had, it seems, few friends. The venue, like the play itself, is an example of the current renaissance of arts and culture in rural and suburban areas. The performance space itself was spacious and comfortable, though the sound system had some hitches which made it difficult to hear the actors over the air-conditioning unit for the first few scenes.

A higher stage platform would have made scenes easier to see, particularly when actors sat down, and simpler scenery would have shortened the long scene changes without any loss. Strong Poison is both a murder mystery and the start of a love story. National Velvet Dramatisation of novel by Enid Bagnold; 2 x 45 mins.

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The Holiday Dramatisation of novel by Stevie Smith. The Millstone Dramatisation of novel by Margaret Drabble.

Out of Sweetness Contemporary retelling of the the Samson story. Zuleika Dobson Dramatisation of novel by Max Beerbohm. Every Eye Dramatisation of novel by Isobel English. The Perfect Courtier Original impressionist story about Cellini and his times, told through the eyes of Perseus and Medusa.

Radio 3. Dramatised for Radio 4, Classic Serial, 2 x 60 mins. With Miriam Margolyes and Charles Dance. Tulips in Winter. Play about Spinoza. The Unlit Lamp See also under Radio. All Out in the Wash Play about a launderette.