Dorothy L. Sayers
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.
St Mary's Church in Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire, where Sayers's father was rector during her childhood
Somerville College
Sayers's second book of verse, 1918
Second of Sayers's two 1930 novels
Lord Peter Wimsey
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Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh. A dilettante who solves
Dorothy L. Sayers
…independence. Her first novel, Whose Body?, was published in 1923. Between then and 1939 she wrote ten more novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1930, in Strong Poison, she introduced a leading female character, Harriet Vane, the object of Wimsey's affection. Harriet appears sporadically in…
1926 Daimler Double-Six Saloon
Illuminated incipit of the Divine Comedy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France copy of the 1481 edition