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Title: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936 : The Making of a Detective Novelist by Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Reynolds ISBN: 0-312-14001-0 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Summary: A Lady of Letters . . .
Comment: As Baroness P. D. James states in her preface to this engrossing book, "we have what is in effect an epistolary autobiography" of the young Dorothy L. Sayers, from age five to forty-three, when the author became the household word that she is today. (Later letters comprise volume two.)
The earliest letters are sprinkled with references to poems, plays or short stories that she had written, in any-or all-of the four languages at her command (English, French, German and Latin.) She fell madly in love with the theatre, not to mention the leading men of the era. Before she reached the age of thirteen, she had read (in the original French) The Three Musketeers, and from that time on, referred to her familiy and assorted locations by their assigned names from the book. She took for herself the identity of Athos. At eighteen, her headmistress announced that Dorothy had come top in all England in the Cambridge Higher Local Examinations with distinction in French and spoken German. The following year she entered Somerville College at Oxford.
Men as men didn't enter her life until she had completed Oxford. She fell in love only once, but they couldn't marry due to multiple differences in values. Subsequently, she had a short-lived affair with another man, who was the father of her only child, a son raised by Dorothy's cousin. Their roles were reversed in the boy's life; the cousin was his 'Mum' and Dorothy his aunt. Not until after her death did the truth come out.
These letters bring to vivid life the enigma who was known world-wide as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, the perfect foil. She couldn't afford a luxurious flat, a Daimler, or an Axminster carpet; she could, however, provide them for Lord Peter. She made him and his family and his possessions incredibly real for her millions of readers.
Any devotee of Lord Peter Wimsey will be exceedingly grateful to Barbara Reynolds for her years of loving care in sorting through and editing these letters of one of the world's great novelists. We can but wait-patiently-for volume two, in order to learn how Dorothy wore her hard-earned and well-deserved fame.
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Title: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1937-1943, From Novelist to Playwright (Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1937-1943) by Dorothy L. Sayers, Barbara Reynolds ISBN: 0312181272 Publisher: St Martins Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds ISBN: 0312153538 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy L. Sayers ISBN: 0060670770 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery by Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers ISBN: 0312291000 Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sayers on Holmes by Dorothy L. Sayers, Alzina Stone Dale ISBN: 188772608X Publisher: Mythopoeic Pr Pub. Date: 06 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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