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	Dorothy L. Sayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sayers appears, with Agatha Christie, as a title character in Dorothy and Agatha [ISBN 0-451-40314-2], a fictional murder mystery by Gaylord Larsen, in which a man is murdered in her dining room, and Sayers has to solve the crime.
		Dorothy L. Sayers (and she always insisted on that "L.") is perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, a series of novels and short stories featuring an English aristocrat who is an amateur sleuth.
		Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Dr. Barbara Reynolds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Sayers (1545 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers Biography
		A clergyman's daughter, Dorothy L. Sayers was raised in an isolated parish in Huntingdonshire, where she was tutored by a French governess; in her teens, she was sent to boarding school in Salisbury, where (according to her later writings) she enjoyed her subjects but was socially miserable.
		Sayers frequently lamented that "modern" writers of her time had decided that characterization got in the way of the plot, and she consciously aimed in her stories to bring the detective story back into the rich tradition of the 19th-century English novel.
		Sayers felt that these stories were not great literature, but they are engaging and entertaining on rereading.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~ryoder/mystery/sayers-bio.html (871 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Sayers, Dorothy L
		Dorothy L Sayers: Her life and Soul (1993) by her friend Barbara Reynolds, and James Brabazon's Dorothy L Sayers: The Life of a Courageous Woman (1981) are well respected.
		Sayers was inundated with letters begging her not to let Lord Peter marry "that horrid girl".It isn't hard to see the relationship between the dashing Lord Peter and Sayers's alter ego, Harriet Vane, as an attempt to improve on the disappointments of Sayers's own romantic life.
		Sayers was a keen motorbike rider, and has earned quiet respect in certain circles for the faultless descriptions of these machines in her books.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,1394026,00.html (739 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers
		Sayers collaborated with Meade's partner, Robert Eustace on The Documents in the Case (1930), and she is the sole source of the information that Meade was responsible for the writing and Eustace for the scientific ideas in Meade and Eustace's stories.
		Sayers' biographer Barbara Reynolds dates the remarkable thriller "The Leopard Lady" to the early Sayers period, circa 1928, and says that it was part of a planned series, with at least one other unpublished tale actually written about the same villains.
		Sayers' backgrounds tend to look at the life of the mind, such as religion, education, or commercial writing in newspapers or advertising, as well as the social institutions that support that mental life.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/sayers.htm (4573 words)

	Dorothy Sayers: Mystery Writer, Theologian :: Internet For Christians
		Rosary College professor Mary Durkin's essay Dorothy L. Sayers: A Christian Humanist for Today looks thoroughly at Sayers' focus on questions of doctrine, integrity, and relationships; Julia Whitfield of Chasing Hats takes us on an excellent tour of Sayers' works, noting some of the religious themes and ideas to which she held.
		We can hope that with the increased attention being paid by Christians to the "Oxford writers" that Dorothy Sayers will be held up before the church as an example of a devout Christian whose art was driven by and strongly dependent upon her faith.
		Sayers' bibliography is not restricted to her popular fiction, but includes a wide variety of other pieces, including a translation of Dante, a number of overtly Christian plays, and her many essays, in which (among other things) she struggles with and explores the relationship of human creativity to God's Creation.
	ifc.gospelcom.net /entertainment/151 (347 words)

	The Importance of Being Dorothy L. Sayers - Taylor University
		I would agree that Dorothy Sayers and her fellow graduates were privileged, not because they were wealthy, for most of them were not, but because of the implicit assumption in their time that subjects intrinsically of value set their minds and talents free to enter into permanent possession of a tradition and heritage.
		Dorothy Sayers was then known chiefly as the author of very successful detective novels, featuring the aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey who shares with Sherlock Holmes a life which extends beyond fiction.
		Since her death in December 1957, Dorothy Sayers has been increasingly a subject of interest and study, not only as a detective novelist, but as a writer on religious, moral and literary matters.
	www.taylor.edu /academics/supportServices/csLewis/Reynolds.htm (4192 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers
		Dorothy Sayers was born in Oxford as the daughter of the Rev. Henry Sayers, the director of the Christchurch Cathedral Choir School, and Helen Mary (Leigh) Sayers.
		A devout Anglo-Catholic, Sayers was for many years a friend of the Oxford writers known as the Inklings.
		Sayers is best-known for her stories about the amateur aristocratic detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, who made his breakthrough in the novel WHOSE BODY?
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /dlsayers.htm (1486 words)

	Boundless-The Unlikely Evangelist
		Dorothyâs friend C.S. Lewis said of the series years later, âI have re-read it in every Holy Week since it first appeared, and never re-read it without being deeply moved.â And Reynolds wrote in 1993, âThousands are still alive who heard the broadcasts when they were young and whose lives were lastingly affected by them.
		Oddly enough, though Dorothy enjoyed writing religious dramas and essays, she didnât consider evangelism her âproper job.â Her role in life, she believed, was that of a storyteller, and she got fed up with appeals to make speeches, participate in debates, and share her testimony.
		As Dorothy discovered with her atheist, itâs amazing what we can accomplish when we let God stretch our boundaries.
	www.boundless.org /2001/departments/head_and_heart/a0000571.html (1659 words)

	Dorothy Leigh Sayers
		Dorothy L. Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893, and was both a classical scholar and a graduate of modern languages.
		Dorothy L. Sayers' novels have been continuously in demand since they were first published over fifty years ago.
		Jill Paton Walsh used the notes discovered in Sayers' agent's office, detailing how the novel begun by Dorothy L. Sayers was to develop, and completed the enthralling story of a society murder which involves both Lord Peter and his new wife Harriet when they set up home in London in 1936.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/dorothyleighsayers.html (983 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers: A Christian Humanist for Today
		Neither a mystic nor a saint, Dorothy L. Sayers was an original craftswoman, a gifted scholar and translator, and an outspoken Christian humanist.
		Sayers does blame the church of the past several centuries for attempting to uphold a particular standard of ethical values which derive from Christian dogma while gradually dispensing with the very dogmas which are the sole rational foundation for these values.
		Sayers criticizes advertisers who tempt the gullible and invade areas that should be private, but she also censures consumers who, indifferent to blatantly offensive advertisements and shoddy, unnecessary products that flood the market, nevertheless continue to spend foolishly.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1267 (3294 words)

	Dorothy L Sayers, Writer and Theologian
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English writer and scholar, born at Oxford in 1893, the only child of an Anglican clergyman.
		Dorothy L Sayers died 17 December 1957 (Encyclopedia Americana) or perhaps the next day (Who Was Who), leaving her translation of the Comedy unfinished.
		Miss Sayers' first commercially successful writings were detective fiction, and she eventually rose to the very top of that field.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/19.html (2874 words)

	the Dorothy L. Sayers Archive - Introduction
		In turn pious, mischievous, clever and erudite, Sayers was part of a generation of mystery writers who excelled at depicting a time and place, in England and around the world, which was to change drastically in a few very short years.
		Sayers also created one of the most enduring (and occasionally belittled and caricatured) characters in English literature, the already-mentioned Peter Wimsey.
		On a personal score, Sayers is one of the few authors that I am inclined to re-read, despite the backlog of unread books piling up in odd corners around my home.
	www.idir.net /~nedblake/sayers_0.html (370 words)

	Mystery Guide - Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
		Dorothy Sayers, as a representative of her class (educated upper-middle), apparently had no time for anyone who wasn't either brilliantly intellectual, or filthy rich and aristocratic, or both.
		orothy L. Sayers was, her rabid fans to the contrary, never the greatest at plotting out puzzles (the plots in her novels tend to be sensationalistic, contrived, and over-clever, which is perhaps her most general fault as a writer).
		My overall delight in this book is spoiled by the fact that Sayers used it as a platform for completely gratuitous (the character's Jewishness makes no difference to the story) bigoted remarks which she obviously intends us to take as evidence of the aristocrats' sophistication and wit.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkSayersBody.html (747 words)

	Dorothy Leigh Sayers
		Set in the unusual background of an artists' colony in Galloway, in the south of Scotland, Five Red Herrings is one of the best of Dorothy L. Sayers' murder-mystery novels which made her the leading writer in the detective fiction field.
		Sayers had been a copywriter herself - and her glee at recreating her old workplace is evident in the fictitious advertising campaigns and sparkling repartee of the Pym's Publicity employees.
		As a night blizzard rages, Lord Peter drives with his valet, Bunter, through the Cambridgeshire Fen country; the car skids off the road, and the two are stranded in Fenchurch St Paul - whose church houses the nine bells of the title - as the changes are rung for the New Year.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/dorothyleighsayers1.html (679 words)

	Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries)
		Dorothy L. Sayers was known to many readers as the creator of that debonair, aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, who solved the mysteries in Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night and The Nine...
		Dorothy L. Sayers A classic author from the golden era of mysteries, Dorothy L. Sayers is best known for her series featuring...
		Dorothy L. Sayers - Gaudy Night - Book:...
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /B000062XIJ/Gaudy_Night_Dorothy_L._Sayers_Mysteries.html (1119 words)

	Austen Citings - Dorothy L Sayers
		Dorothy L Sayers in a letter to the Rev Eric Thornton, Chief Organising Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
		23 May, 1946, when Dorothy Sayers had started translating Dante.
		Sayers wrote back explaining that it would be impossible because of the scale, because of the hugeness of Hell, six rivers and a 1500ft high Satan, etc:
	www.jasa.net.au /austencitings/sayers.htm (472 words)

	Dorothy Sayers
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers is considered to be one of the Queens of the Golden Age of the British Detective together with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh.
		Sayers first worked in a publishing company and in 1923 came out with her first novel,
		Born at Oxford on June 13 1893, she was educated in Cambridgeshire, Salisbury as well as Oxford and graduated with a first class honors degree in modern languages.
	www.bastulli.com /Sayers/SAYERS.htm (1290 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dorothy Leigh Sayers (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers[sA´urz] Pronunciation Key, 1893–1957, English writer, grad.
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
		Sayers is considered one of the masters of the detective story.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sayers-D.html (308 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Dorothy L. Sayers : The Complete Stories
		Dorothy L. Sayers is recognized as one of the greatest mystery writers of the 20th century.
		Dorothy L. Sayers died in 1957, but her books continue to enthrall readers today.
		Dorothy L. Sayers is the author of novels, short stories, poetry collections, essays, reviews and translations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060084618?v=glance (1103 words)

	Dorothy Sayers
		In an age of skepticism, cynicism, and false "freedoms," Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was a passionate and occasionally scathing voice of reason.
		Like her friends C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Williams, Sayers was a brilliant Christian thinker, an Anglo-Catholic who took doctrine seriously and bristled at the growth of "fads, schisms, heresies, and anti-Christ" within the Church of England.
		Perhaps best known today as the author of the best-selling detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers was also a playwright, translator of Dante, poet, theologian, and apologist.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0138.html (980 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers - The Detection Club
		Sayers also wrote a number of stories featuring Montague Egg, which appear in two of Sayers' short story collections.
		In the world of detective fiction, Sayers is best known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, a somewhat foppish man-about-town who dabbles in detection.
		ollowing the 1939 publication of In the Teeth of the Evidence, Sayers abandoned mystery writing in favor of more academic pursuits.
	www.detectionclub.com /sayers.php (112 words)

	Dorothy Sayers Presentation
		Years later, when Sayers herself began to write about the Christian faith, her emphasis was more often than not on the necessity of helping others to correctly discern the specifics of Christian doctrine.
		As a young person, Sayers struggled to come to terms with the faith in which she had been raised.
		Examining the role of the intellect in shaping and maintaining Sayers' own faith as well as the perceived absence of emotion in this same faith process is critical to a proper understanding of Sayers' view of Christian faith as a whole, and can offer helpful insights to our own theological understanding of faith.
	www.atla.com /catla/meeting/sayers.htm (351 words)

	Dorothy Sayers on Why Hell Is a Non-Negotiable
		Dorothy Sayers on Why Hell Is a Non-Negotiable
		Dorothy Sayers, who died in 1957, speaks a necessary antidote to this kind of abandonment of truth.
		There seems to be a kind of conspiracy, especially among middle-aged writers of vaguely liberal tendency, to forget, or to conceal, where the doctrine of Hell comes from.
	www.desiringgod.org /library/fresh_words/2000/050200.html (730 words)

	Dorothy L Sayers
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born at Oxford on 13th June 1893, the only child of the Rev. Henry Sayers, of Anglo-Irish descent.
		Her father was at the time headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School, and she was born in the headmaster's house.
	www.sayers.org.uk /dorothy.html (675 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sayers appears, with Agatha Christie, as a title character in Dorothy and Agatha [ISBN 0-451-40314-2], a fictional murder mystery by Gaylord Larsen, in which a man is murdered in her dining room, and Sayers has to solve the crime.
		Dorothy L. Sayers is perhaps best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries-a series of novels and short stories featuring an English aristocrat who solves numerous mysteries as an amateur sleuth.
		Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Sayers (1213 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers Biography / Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers Biography Biography
		Her dozen detective novels and two dozen short stories in that genre established the reputation of Dorothy Leigh Sayers in the 1920s and 1930s as a major writer of mysteries; they also established Lord Peter Wimsey as an equally famous fictional detective.
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		Sayers conceived of Lord Peter as a fascinating if somewhat eccentric charmer, following the Conan Doyle tradition that the character of the detective took precedence over all other facets of the detective fiction.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-dorothy-l-sayers (183 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries
		Under the masthead “The Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries,” the BBC produced ‘mini-series’ of the first three books dealing with Wimsey romance with mystery author Harriet Vane.
		And in Gaudy Night we also can see exactly how skillfully Sayers worked out the progression of the Wimsey/Vane relationship in advance: the setting of the women’s college and the startling confrontation scene at the end serves as a catalyst for the final resolution of their two sleuth’s relationship.
		But the shift was inevitable: the three books adapted here are set apart from the rest of Sayers’ books, in that the once free-spirit, devil-may-care Wimsey, once he is besotted with Harriet Vane, becomes a more “broody” and introspective person (though not without his flashes of wit) than before.
	www.classicsondvd.com /dorothy.htm (1318 words)

	Are Women Human? - Dorothy Leigh Sayers Mary M Shideler
		Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison - 0762188650
		Isbn: 0802813844 by Dorothy Leigh Sayers Mary M Shideler
		Isbn: 0070096317 by Dorothy L Cady Dorothy Cady
	www.bookisbnsearch.com /244403_dorothy-livesay_091952298x40womenpoetsofcanadasearchisbn.html (157 words)

	'Thrones, Dominations' by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
		In 1936, Sayers gave up writing her very successful series of mystery novels and devoted herself to writing religious works and translating Dante.
		With the help of Harriet Vane, Bunter and his intended, a professional photographer named Hope Fanshaw, are able to work out an arrangement - another variation on the "duty" theme - that allows Bunter to continue to serve Lord Peter and Miss Fanshaw to serve her craft.
		The story that slowly unfolds seems more like a domestic tale by Anthony Trollope than a whodunit.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980405review74.asp (684 words)

	The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers
		As a long time admirer of the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers, I found Ms.
		A beautiful look at the life and mind of Dorothy Sayers.
		Kenney's book to be highly insightful--both on Sayers the writer and Sayers the woman.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_087338458X.html (116 words)

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