Includes indexIncludes bibliographical references and indexesv. 1 1899-1936: the making of a detective novelist - v. 2 1937-1943: from novelist to playwright - v.
3 1944-1950: a noble daring - v. 4 1951-1957: in the midst of life - v. Sayers child and woman of her timePreface / P.D. James - 1899-1908 Childhood - 1909-1911 School - 1912-1915 Oxford - 1916-1920 In Search of a Career - 1920-1925 The Difficult Years - 1926-1929 Marriage, Maturity and the Beginnings of Success - 1930-1936 Celebrated Author and Private PersonC.S. Lewis said that Dorothy L. Sayers would be acclaimed as one of the great letter-writers of the twentieth century.
His opinion is triumphantly confirmed in this collection of letters spanning Sayers's childhood and career as a detective novelist. Her letters to family, friends, and professional colleagues paint a vivid portrait of a serious, determined, and often very funny writer - not just the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and the greatest detective novelist of theGolden age, but also a poet, a translator, and ultimately a playwright.
There are also letters that make for painful reading: those to the man she loved, John Cournos, who refused to marry her because he didn't believe in marriage and didn't want children, yet soon after his move to America, married a woman with children of her own; and those pouring out her frustrated love to the illegitimate son whom she could not acknowledge publicly. Sayers reveals herself candidlyIn her personal letters as a genial, amusing, and loyal friend, but also as the woman who 'regarded the intellect as androgynous - neither male or female, but human' and took exuberant pleasure in using it well. Defensive drivers group redwood city. Her letters bear the imprint of her vigorous mind, reflecting the social, cultural, and religious issues in which she took a passionate interest.
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