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	Harriet Vane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harriet Deborah Vane, Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the writings of Dorothy L. Sayers.
		Daughter of a country doctor and graduate of the fictional Shrewsbury College, Oxford, Vane is a writer of detective stories who is wrongly accused of the murder of her former lover Philip Boyes.
		The first of their children is born in the story "The Haunted Policeman," and by the time of the story "Talboys" they have three sons: Bredon Delgardie Peter Wimsey (born in October 1936), Roger Wimsey (born 1938), and Paul Wimsey (born 1940).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_Vane (200 words)

	Buy Series & Sequels: Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries - Gaudy Night (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet, motivated by her memories of Oxford as an escape from worldly concerns (such as her involvement in two murders and persistent proposals from Lord Peter), attends a student reunion or gaudy night.
		Harriet must labor under the triple complications of the crimes themselves, a mixed reception from the dons of Shrewsbury, and the ever-increasing complexity of her relationship with Lord Peter.
		Harriet Vane is an intelligent, determined woman, who is facing one of the dilemmas of her times, how to be an independent woman and in love at the same time.
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	Dorothy L. Sayers said, Guinness is good for you.
		Harriet, the epitome of the 1920s "liberated woman," graduated with honours from Oxford; is a successful young mystery novelist; smokes in public; and for a while, lived openly with a man to whom she was not married.
		Harriet, attending her Shewsbury College, Oxford reunion, is harassed by a series of poison-pen letters threatening not only her, but Wimsey as well.
		When Harriet realises that Peter is not the type to deny her independence or career, as most other contemporary men could; and Peter realises that he needs to give Harriet her space, the two marry.
	exquisitedeadguy.50megs.com /sayers.html (989 words)

	Outside of a Dog: Kate Nepveu's Book Log
		Harriet experiences the start of the Poison-Pen's campaign when she goes back for a Gaudy (which appears to be something like Homecoming or Alumni weekend in American terms).
		Harriet, who has excellent reasons for fearing a relationship with Peter, learns rather a lot about herself, him, and themselves over the course of the book, so that she finally (after a five-year courtship) agrees to marry Peter.
		Granted, Harriet was a bit overwrought when she thought that, but the theme bothered me; I eventually decided that it made me wonder if I was shallow or thoughtless not to have agonized at length on the question, when all those intellectual and thoughtful women in the book had done so.
	www.steelypips.org /weblog/2001_11_01_archive.php (3855 words)

	Lady Peter Wimsey: Literary Device or Character
		Harriet Vane's function is that of a plot device used to enhance and describe Sir Peter Wimsey, not an independently developing person.
		Each time Harriet was involved in a case she would be the person to discover the body or know the source of trouble, but in each case it would be Sir Peter Wimsey's intellect that would finally be brought in to do serious battle with the criminals.
		Harriet Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, was a plot device used to expand on the series character, Sir Peter Wimsey.
	www.lothlorien.net /~jason/school/writings/sayers.html (1191 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When she tired of grinding out detective stories, Sayers introduced Harriet Vane, a detective novelist and amateur detective, in the definitive Strong Poison.
		But there is an essential complacency in Vane we do not see in Sayers, particularly in light of the scholarship Sayers pursued for the bulk of her life.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_L._Sayers (1545 words)

	SPEECHLESS
		At first glance, Harriet Vane appears to be a heroine and a renegade among the ranks of the reactionary, classcist, male dominated society Dorothy Sayers portrays and tacitly condones.
		Harriet is neatly separated from this group by her commercial viability and because she writes intellectual thrillers rather than vague, impressionistic maunderings (the kind of stuff we are led to believe Boyes wrote).
		Harriet as she initially appears is too "violent and lifelike" to be sustained by the fabric that encloses her.
	www.apurnell.com /wilreadings/dls.htm (2114 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet also has the presence of mind to call a friend in Fleet Street and give him the story of finding the body for his newspaper, before the press can dig it up themselves and rake up the tawdry case she wants to leave behind.
		Harriet is annoyed that her known association with a Lord of the Realm gets her preferential treatment that was not available to her as a woman, even though she enjoyed fame in her own right.
		Though Harriet suggests it would be better if they called in the police, the head of the college insists that that sort of notoriety would be a serious detriment to their reputation, something that the women’s college simply cannot afford.
	www.classicsondvd.com /dorothy.htm (1318 words)

	SuperHeroBooks :: Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection - Strong Poison / Have His ...
		Harriet Vane, a mystery writer and alumni of the college, is called in to investigate, and goes skulking deliciously around in the dark, trying to catch the culprit in the act.
		Harriet is somewhat dowdy, although not unattractive, but her angry, sulky, often downright hostile manner toward Peter is off-putting.
		Walter plays Harriet with rich nuance, saying as much with her silences as she does with her lines, and Richard Morant is quietly fantastic as the remarkable Bunting.
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	Amazon.com: Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection - Strong Poison / Have His ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet is in prison for the murder of her fiance.
		But poor Harriet is destined to fall over dead bodies and walking along the shore she stumbles on a poor sod who appears to have a slit throat.
		In GAUDY NIGHT, the third in the trilogy, Harriet has returned to the university she attended years earlier for a reunion with her female classmates (she was educated in the "girls" college at the university).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000062XDX?v=glance (2738 words)

	Presumption of Death, A: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery - Dorothy L. Sayers - Mobipocket eBooks
		Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, leaving Harriet in the country with their family.
		Daily life brings constant reminders of the war, so when a young Land Girl is found dead in the street, it's almost a shock to hear the doctor say that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder.
		At the request of the local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/93459-ebook.htm (573 words)

	Lord Peter List -- Literary Contest Entries by title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet folded her arms in front of her, hands inside of the sleeves...
		Harriet started up from the table and made her way through to a dance floor...
		Harriet's eyes goggled at the sight of the dancing floor.
	homepage.mac.com /nlbarber/lordpeter/entries.html (910 words)

	vane
		Diane tries in vane to resurrect her sister from the dead using an old book of magic but her attempt manages to kill a man. Her husband Lane cuts up the body in order to dispose of it...
		Harriet Vane takes a break & heads for North Devon - where she finds the body of a young man with his throat cut; Wimsey is quickly on the scene (Acorn) Price:
		Harriet Vane`s lover leaves her flat and only one hour later he dies of arsenic poisoning.
	www.athroughz.co.uk /UK-products.asp?sc=vane (840 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Strong Poison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this story he joins forces for the first time with the one true love of his life, Harriet Vane, who is on trial for poisoning her fiancé when Wimsey meets her.
		Vane, a curious mix of 19th Century ideas and 20s era feminism, is a mystery writer (and, in this volume, accused murderess) in her own right.
		On trial is Harriet Vane, accused of killing her lover by administering arsenic.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1572701242 (1014 words)

	Lord Peter Wimsey in Print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet's on trial for the murder of her former lover and Lord Peter sets out to prove her innocence.
		Harriet is on a walking tour of England and finds the body of a young man on a lonely beach.
		Harriet returns to her alma mater and finds her old university friends are not all they appear to be.
	www.dm.net /~vicki/wimsey02.html (178 words)

	Epinions.com - The best series (within a series)
		Harriet is rumored to be modeled after Sayers herself, and does share many of the author's attributes, including an Oxford education, a profession, and a sharp wit.
		Vane is not a popular character with many mystery readers, but I do not know why.
		It is withing the Wimsey/Vane novels that Sayers reaches her peak as a storyteller and creater of living characters.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-610A-B381EC1-39F5E187-prod2 (388 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Strong Poison (A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet Vane is guilty of the killing her lover.
		The notorious Harriet Vane is on trial for poisoning her previous live in lover.
		Sayers wrote several memorable novels in which Harriet Vane does not appear at all, most notably the famous MURDER MUST ADVERTISE, but her development of the character is a remarkable process to behold, and fans will enjoy watching the process.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0450013928 (1403 words)

	DVD : Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries - Have His Carcase (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wimsey's special friend Harriet Vane (Harriet Walter), fresh from a murder trial of her own, tries to get away from it all and ends up stumbling over a freshly killed body.
		In this second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country.
		The stolidness that Harriet developed after her trial to withstand all, including Whimsey, was wonderfully done.
	meseta.net /B000062XDZ/Dorothy_L._Sayers_Mysteries-Have_His_Carcase_The_Lord_Peter_Wimsey-Harriet_Vane_Collection.shtml (712 words)

	Eat Healthy. Live Happy. - Cookbook - A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
		The Wimsey family have left London for their country house, Talboys, and we are once more in the village life of Harriet's youth.
		At the moment, they are also an extended family, having brought the Parker children from London while Chief Inspector Charles Parker and his wife Mary attend to their wartime duties.
		Helen, Duchess of Denver, makes her usual tactless and high-handed attempts to run the family and brings home the point that Harriet may become the head of the Wimsey family and have to carry on without her husband.
	www.valuerecipes.com /index.php/trade/productinfo/ASIN/0312291000 (467 words)

	Thrones, Dominations : A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery at Audiobooks Online - Cassette, CD, MP3 audio books
		This Sayers' mystery, unfinished at the time of her death, explores Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane's relationship as a married couple, while solving yet another murder mystery.
		Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet Vane have returned from their honeymoon and are settling into their life together in 1930s London.
		As Lord Peter and Harriet are drawn into solving the crime, they also grapple with issues surrounding their own marriage and family life.
	www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/0754002039.html (377 words)

	Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet Vane's Oxford reunion is shadowed by a rash of bizarre pranks and malicious mischief that include beautifully worded death threats, burnt effigies, and vicious poison-pen letters, and Harriet finds herself and Lord Peter Wimsey challenged by an elusive set of clues.
		Lord Peter Wimsey continues to ply Harriet Vane with marriage proposals, but she has other things in mind - a reunion at her alma mater, Oxford.
		Harriet finds herself ensnared in a nightmare of romance and terror, with few clues to challenge her powers of detection and those of her sometime boyfriend, Lord Peter.
	isbn.nu /1572704012 (498 words)

	DVD:Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries - Strong Poison (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection) - A56 Online Shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with mystery writer Harriet Vane as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey.
		Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiance.
		Strong Poison is the first story featuring Harriet Vane, the detective-novel writer who wins Lord Peter's heart & help as she stands trial for her life, accused of murdering her former lover.
	www.a56.net /DVD/Item/B000062XDY.htm (1692 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery [Large Print] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harriet's traditional line of inquiry into possible spurned suitors is diverted when an eccentric and seemingly paranoid dentist discloses that the quiet, ordinary village of Paggleham is actually a nest of German spies.
		Harriet introduces him as "her second son" and Roger seems to have been completely skipped.
		The author very heavy-handedly adds comments like, "Harriet forgot what was troubling her." By way of "explaining" Harriet's failure to follow up and thereby prolong the mystery, this tactic highlights the clue, which is not what a mystery-writer would want to do.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0786255617 (1161 words)

	Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries - Gaudy Night (The Lord Peter Wimsey-Harriet Vane Collection)
		There is no chess set, and none of the undercurrents between Vane and the Hilliard woman that that event brought out in the book.
		It was key to what happened between Wimsay and Vane and what it symbolized of the primacy and the costs and rewards of the intellectual life was a rich underlying theme for every character, including of course the culprit.
		But this production cheated us - vane thinks a few poetry lines re Oxford at the very beginning as she is driving there, then wimsey says something about how awfully serious Oxford makes everyone at the very end, and the whole theme is just absent otherwise.
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /B000062XE0/Dorothy_L._Sayers_Mysteries-Gaudy_Night_The_Lord_Peter_Wimsey-Harriet_Vane_Collection.html (941 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A PRESUMPTION OF DEATH by Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers
		Lord Peter Wimsey is off doing his duty while his wife Harriet Vane --- mother, mystery writer and involved citizen --- has fled to the English countryside with her children and their cousins.
		To recreate Harriet Vane in A PRESUMPTION OF DEATH, Walsh says, " [Sayers] didn't exactly promote Harriet, who is not, by any means, an idealized character.
		I mean Lord Peter and Harriet are lovely fun, they're awfully entertaining to write about, and I can think of loads of books about them that I'd love to write --- that's not the problem.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0312291000.asp (677 words)

	Cloggie :: Booklog :: Dorothy L. Sayers
		From this setup, the main theme of the novel develops, which is the struggle within Harriet between wanting to retreat to a life of scholarship of rejoining Shrewsbury College and her (unvoiced and unadmitted) love for Lord Peter and possible marriage to him.
		Lord Peter and Harriet are finally married and spent their honeymoon at an old farmhouse called Talboys, near the village where Harriet grew up.
		Lord Peter and Harriet are now in the unenviable situation of having to solve a murder during their honeymoon: a true busman's honeymoon.
	www.cloggie.org /books/sayers.html (1801 words)

	'Thrones' blends fun, mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		No one has ever doubted that Lord Peter's beloved Harriet Vane married him at least in part for the pleasure of hearing him talk nonsense.
		In sure, strong strokes, she uses physical portraits of Harriet and Rosamund -- painted by a French artist with a devilishly accurate eye -- as keys both to marriage and to murder.
		As Harriet is reminded during an unfortunate but inevitable lecture from her sister-in-law the Duchess of Denver, to have a marriage misunderstood by observers can be unpleasant.
	www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/books/0308thrones.stm (577 words)

	Powell's Books - A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery by Jill Paton Walsh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country.
		Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village’s first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it’s almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder.
		At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0312291000-0 (507 words)

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