47 Facts About Dorothy Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime writer and poet.

Dorothy Sayers's was a student of classical and modern languages.

Dorothy Sayers's 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 As a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Sayers was considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh.

Dorothy Sayers is known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays.

Dorothy Sayers considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work.

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Dorothy Sayers's obituarist, writing in The New York Times in 1957, noted that many critics at the time regarded her mystery The Nine Tailors as her finest literary achievement.

Dorothy Sayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Headmaster's House on Brewer Street in Oxford.

Dorothy Sayers's was the daughter of Helen Mary Leigh and her husband, the Rev Henry Sayers.

Dorothy Sayers's grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire after her father was given the living there as rector of Bluntisham-cum-Earith.

Dorothy Sayers's was inspired by her father's restoration of the Bluntisham church bells in 1910.

From 1909 Dorothy Sayers was educated at the Godolphin School, a boarding school in Salisbury.

In 1912, Dorothy Sayers received the Gilchrist Scholarship for Modern Languages to Somerville College, Oxford where she studied modern languages and medieval literature and was taught by Mildred Pope.

Women were not awarded degrees at that time, but Dorothy Sayers was among the first to receive a degree when the position changed a few years later; in 1920 she graduated as an MA.

Later, Dorothy Sayers worked for Blackwell's and then as a teacher in several locations, including Normandy, France.

Dorothy Sayers's published a number of poems in the Oxford Magazine.

In 1920 Dorothy Sayers contributed two poems, one of them a love poem named Veronica to the first and only issue of The Quorum, the UK's first homosexual magazine.

Dorothy Sayers later relied on his book when she composed the trial scene of Jesus in her play The Man Born to Be King.

Dorothy Sayers once commented that Lord Peter was a mixture of Fred Astaire and Bertie Wooster.

Dorothy Sayers introduced the character of detective novelist Harriet Vane in Strong Poison.

Dorothy Sayers's remarked more than once that she had developed the "husky voiced, dark-eyed" Harriet to put an end to Lord Peter via matrimony.

Dorothy Sayers's co-wrote with Robert Eustace one murder mystery that did not feature Wimsey, The Documents in the Case, and wrote a portion of three other mysteries with several members of the Detection Club.

Dorothy Sayers wrote eleven short stories about Montague Egg, a wine and spirits salesman who solves mysteries.

Dorothy Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work.

Dorothy Sayers's praised Roland for being a purely Christian myth, in contrast to such epics as Beowulf in which she found a strong pagan content.

Dorothy Sayers's shared an enthusiasm for Dante's work with the novelist, poet, playwright and lay-theologian Charles Williams and she contributed an essay about The Divine Comedy to the memorial volume Essays Presented to Charles Williams.

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Dorothy Sayers's suggests that any human creation of significance involves the Idea, the Energy, and the Power .

Dorothy Sayers's strongly defends the view that literary creatures have a nature of their own, vehemently replying to a well-wisher who wanted Wimsey to "end up a convinced Christian".

Religious works of Dorothy Sayers did so well at presenting the orthodox Anglican position that, in 1943, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple, offered her a Lambeth doctorate in divinity, which she declined, explaining that “I have only served Divinity, as it were, accidentally, coming to it as a writer rather than as a Christian person.

Dorothy Sayers continues to elaborate on the same argument in her other essay The Human-Not-Quite-Human in which she satirises existing gender stereotypes by flipping them around.

Dorothy Sayers distanced herself from feminist political labels, and preferred to be considered "simply human".

Critic Sean Latham has defended Dorothy 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".

Vane, like Dorothy Sayers, was educated at Oxford and is a mystery writer.

Robert Kuhn McGregor and Ethan Lewis argue in Conundrums for the Long Week-End that Dorothy Sayers was not anti-Semitic but used popular British stereotypes of class and ethnicity.

In 1920 Dorothy Sayers entered into a passionate affair with Jewish Russian emigre and Imagist poet John Cournos, who moved in London literary circles with Ezra Pound and his contemporaries.

Dorothy Sayers went on to marry a crime writer, which left Sayers embittered that he had not held to his own principles, feeling that he had been testing her, pushing her to sacrifice her own beliefs in submission to his own.

Dorothy Sayers's had met him when he moved into the flat above hers in 24 Great James Street in December 1922.

On 3 January 1924, at the age of 30, Dorothy Sayers secretly gave birth to an illegitimate son, John Anthony .

Dorothy Sayers and Fleming lived in the small flat at 24 Great James Street in Bloomsbury that Dorothy Sayers maintained for the rest of her life.

Dorothy Sayers died suddenly of a coronary thrombosis on 17 December 1957 at the same place, aged 64.

Dorothy Sayers's remains were cremated and her ashes buried beneath the tower of St Anne's Church, Soho, London, where she had been a churchwarden for many years.

Dorothy Sayers is commemorated with a green plaque on The Avenues, Kingston upon Hull.

Dorothy Sayers was part of The Mutual Admiration Society, a literary society of undergraduate women during her studies in Somerville College, Oxford, one of Oxford's first two women's colleges.

Carol and Philip Zaleski note, “Dorothy Sayers had much in common with Lewis and Tolkien's circle, including a love of orthodox Christianity, traditional verse, popular fiction, and debate.

Dorothy Sayers, along with Chesterton, was a founder member of the Detection Club, a group for British mystery writers.

Dorothy Sayers was a founder and early president of the Detection Club, an eclectic group of practitioners of the art of the detective novel in the so-called golden age, for whom she constructed an idiosyncratic induction ritual.

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The asteroid was discovered by Lubos Kohoutek, but the name suggested by Brian G Marsden with whom Sayers consulted extensively during the last year of her life in her attempt to rehabilitate the Roman poet Lucan.

In 2022, Dorothy Sayers was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day on 17 December.