Now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. Sayers’s Gaudy Night takes mystery writer Harriet Vane to Oxford University, Harriet’s alma mater, for a reunion, only to find herself the target of a nightmare of harassment and mysterious, murderous threats. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself.”- Times Literary Supplement (London)ĭorothy L. “ Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels. Together with Moulton’s book, the two are the basis for the review. A celebration of feminism and female friendship, The Mutual Admiration Society offers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human.ĭubbing themselves the Mutual Admiration Society, Sayers and her classmates remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they fought for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rightsĭorothy L. Ī group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton.

One is The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Īlthough Caplan-Bricker discusses several contemporary mysteries, there are two books in the article that you might want to check out in the Web Store. You can read her article in the column, “Under Review”. Sayers’ mysteries, and talks about the current golden age of detective stories.

In The New Yorker, Nora Caplan-Bricker reviews a complex biography, discusses Harriet Vane from Dorothy L.

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