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Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born on 13 June 1893 in Oxford, where her father, the Reverend Henry Sayers, was headmaster of Christ Church Choir School. She started life by being christened in the cathedral, and the traditional Oxford values of Anglicanism and scholarship did a great deal to form her personality. Her mother, born Helen Mary Leigh, had had a great-uncle who wrote for Punch. The humorist tradition had its effect on her too.
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James Brabazon, Dorothy L. Sayers (London, Gollancz, 1981), pp. 262–3.
Dorothy L. Sayers, ‘Gaudy Night’, in Denys Kilham Roberts (ed.), Titles to Fame (London, Nelson, 1937), pp. 76, 88.
Dorothy L. Sayers, ‘Are Women Human?’, in Unpopular Opinions (London, Gollancz, 1946), p. 115.
Q. D. Leavis, ‘The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers’, Scrutiny, December 1937.
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death (London, Collins, 1938), Ch. 6.
Sheila Jeffreys, The Spinster and her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880 – 1930 (London, Pandora Press, 1985), p. 191.
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Williams, M. (1987). Dorothy L. Sayers. In: Six Women Novelists. Macmillan Modern Novelists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18979-3_5
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