Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957)
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Over de Auteur
Dorothy Sayers's impressive reputation as a contemporary master of the classic detective story is eclipsed only by Agatha Christie's. Sayers was born in Oxford and attended Somerville College, where she received a B.A. in 1915 and an M.A. in 1920. During that period, Sayers worked as an instructor toon meer of modern languages at Hull High School for Girls in Yorkshire and as a reader for a publisher in Oxford. Her early literary work was in poetry; she published several volumes and served as an editor for the journal Oxford Poetry from 1917 to 1919. Sayers also worked as a copywriter for a major advertising firm in London. She was president of the Modern Language Association from 1939 to 1945 and of the Detection Club in the 1950s. Around 1920 Sayers developed the idea for her detective hero Lord Peter Wimsey, and she soon published her first mystery, Whose Body? (1923), in which Lord Peter is introduced. For the next dozen or so years, Sayers wrote prolifically about Wimsey, creating in the process what many critics of the genre consider to be the finest detective novels in the English language. Perhaps her most famous Wimsey mystery was The Nine Tailors (1934). Although Sayers essentially followed the classic form in her detective fiction---a formula in which the plot assumes a greater importance than do the characters---Sayers maintained that a detective hero's greatness depended on how effectively the character was portrayed. All but one of Sayers's mysteries feature Lord Peter Wimsey. By the late 1930s, Sayers had apparently tired of writing detective fiction. She stated in 1947 that she would write no more mysteries, that she wrote detective fiction only when she was young and in need of money. Thus saying, Sayers turned her attention to her early loves, medieval and religious literature, spending her remaining years lecturing on and translating Dante (see Vol. 2). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine (2004) 361 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death (1923) 185 exemplaren
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist (1995) 166 exemplaren
On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels/Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Unnatural Death (1991) 118 exemplaren
Three Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Novels: Whose Body?, Murder Must Advertise, Gaudy Night (1992) 104 exemplaren
The Dorothy L. Sayers Crime Collection: Murder Must Advertise, the Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, Have His Carcass & Strong… (1997) 52 exemplaren
The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers: Selections from Her Novels, Plays, Letters, and Essays (The Gospel in Great Writers) (2018) 49 exemplaren
Lord Peter and Harriet: Part II (Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon, Lost Classics Omnibus) (1937) 37 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Two: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Strong Poison, The Five Red… (2018) 28 exemplaren
Four Classic Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries: Strong Poison/Have His Carcase/Gaudy Night/Busman's Honeymoon (1990) 26 exemplaren
Five Red Herrings: Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey (BBC Radio Collection) (1978) 24 exemplaren
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 1: Three classic full-cast dramatisations (2017) 23 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Short Story Collection: Lord Peter Views the Body / Hangman's Holiday / In the Teeth of the… (2018) 23 exemplaren
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume III (1934) — Redacteur — 19 exemplaren
Taking Detective Stories Seriously: The Collected Crime Reviews of Dorothy L. Sayers (2017) 16 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection: Whose Body?, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, The Five Red Herrings, Nine… (1990) 15 exemplaren
Have His Carcase: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Ian Carmichael & Maria Aitken (BBC Radio Collection) (1981) 15 exemplaren
Mystery (The Case of the Perfect Maid, The Third-Floor Flat, The Image in the Mirror, The Red-Headed League) (1989) 14 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume Three: Murder Must Advertise, The Nine Tailors, Gaudy Night, and Busman's… (2018) 14 exemplaren
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection, Volume 3: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 13 exemplaren
Striding Folly [short story] 13 exemplaren
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) (2018) 13 exemplaren
Lord Peter Wimsey: BBC Radio Drama Collection Volume 2: Four BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations (2018) 11 exemplaren
Three Great Lord Peter Novels: "Strong Poison", "Murder Must Advertise" and "Nine Tailors" (1978) 10 exemplaren
The Christ of the Creeds: And Other Broadcast Messages to the British People During World War II (2008) 8 exemplaren
Wilkie Collins a Critical and Biographical Study: A Critical and Biographical Study (1977) 8 exemplaren
The mysterious English 8 exemplaren
Clouds of Witness [and] The Documents in the Case 7 exemplaren
Early Works of Dorothy Sayers 6 exemplaren
The Sayers holiday book 5 exemplaren
Beyond Schooling: Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
God, Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey: Selected Essays, Speeches and Articles by Dorothy L. Sayers (2019) 4 exemplaren
Mitt namn är Wimsey 4 exemplaren
Kriminalhistorier 4 exemplaren
Peter Wimsey historier 4 exemplaren
The other six deadly sins: An address given to the Public Morality Council at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on October… (1943) 4 exemplaren
The Five Red Herrings & Murder Must Advertise 3 exemplaren
Have his carcase 3 exemplaren
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume VI — Redacteur — 3 exemplaren
De cyperse kat en dertien andere moordzaken 3 exemplaren
The Lord Peter Wimsey Collection 3: Murder Must Advertise / The Nine Tailors / Busman's Honeymoon (2004) 3 exemplaren
Peter Wimsey Omnibus - Whose Body? Clouds of Witness, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Honeymoon (Unabridged) (2012) 2 exemplaren
Les Origines du Roman Policier: A Wartime Wireless Talk to the French. The Original French Text with an English… (2003) 2 exemplaren
OBRAS ESCOGIDAS. EL MISTERIO DE RIDDLESDALE LODGE. LORD PETER DESCUBRE EL DELITO. CINTO PISTAS FALSAS. EL CASO DEL… (1964) 2 exemplaren
In the Teeth of Evidence (First Edition) 2 exemplaren
Clouds of Witness / Murder Must Advertise / Strong Poison / Unnatural Death / Busman's Honeymoon (1982) 2 exemplaren
Lord Peter Wimsey 2 exemplaren
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume IV — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Um corpo na banheira (Em Portugues do Brasil) 1 exemplaar
Das Spiegelbild 1 exemplaar
[Title missing] 1 exemplaar
strong poison 1 exemplaar
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking (a collection of quotable quotes) (2010) 1 exemplaar
The Art of the Actor 1 exemplaar
anything that she writes 1 exemplaar
Detective omnibus 1 exemplaar
Let's Choose Executors 1 exemplaar
The House Of The Soul Lay 1 exemplaar
And Telling You a Story 1 exemplaar
Dorothy L. Sayers Set (6 novels) 1 exemplaar
The Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplaar
OBRA SELECTA 1 exemplaar
The Story of Adam and Christ 1 exemplaar
The Story of Noah's Ark 1 exemplaar
Masterpieces Of Mystery And Detection 1 exemplaar
Onrust in Oxford & Moord op de ijzeren trap 1 exemplaar
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror: Volume V — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
The Dorothy L. Sayers Omnibus: The Five Red herrings, Strong Poison, Lord Peter Views the Body (1933) 1 exemplaar
The Murder of Julia Wallace [essay] 1 exemplaar
The Emperor Constantine 1 exemplaar
THE LORD PETER WIMSEY COLLECTION 1 exemplaar
Třikrát lord Petr 1 exemplaar
Two Lord Peter Wimsey Stories 1 exemplaar
Her Oxford 1 exemplaar
GREAT TALES OF DETECTION (EVERYMAN'S CLASSICS S) 1 exemplaar
Ein unheimlicher Kunde 1 exemplaar
Dorothy L. Sayers 4 Book Set - The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club - Strong Poison - Murder Must Advertise -… (1963) 1 exemplaar
Untitled 1 exemplaar
Dorothy Sayers bedste Lord Peter-Historier 1 exemplaar
Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries 1 exemplaar
The Lord Peter Wimsey MEGAPACK® 1 exemplaar
Wimsey papers : being war-time letters and documents of the Wimsey family [anthology] [ebook] 1 exemplaar
The second omnibus of crime 1 exemplaar
Dorothy Sayers Box Set (Four Mystery Classics Featuring the Inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey, Box Set: Whose Body?; Strong… (1968) 1 exemplaar
Tales of Detection. Everyman's Library No. 928 1 exemplaar
Dante papers trilogy. 1 exemplaar
Strong poison and Have his carcase, 1 exemplaar
Strong Poison: A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel 5 1 exemplaar
The 2nd Omnibus of Crime 1 exemplaar
Busman's holiday 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Fleming, Dorothy Leigh
Flemming, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - Geboortedatum
- 1893-06-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1957-12-17
- Graflocatie
- St. Anne's Church, London, England, UK
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Witham, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- coronary thrombosis
- Woonplaatsen
- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Witham, England, UK - Opleiding
- Oxford University (MA|1920|Somerville College)
Godolphin School, Salisbury - Beroepen
- copywriter
playwright
translator
mystery writer
essayist
The Detection Club, president - Relaties
- Reynolds, Barbara (goddaughter)
- Organisaties
- Detection Club
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Archie Goodwin Award (2007)
Blue Plaque - Korte biografie
- Although best known as a writer of Golden Age British mystery novels featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy L. Sayers also was a student of classical and modern languages, a playwright, and an essayist. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy is still considered a classic.
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