Eschewing the academic life she moved to London in 1922 where she worked for an advertising agency as a copywriter. Born in Oxford to a family involved in education, she excelled as a student herself and graduated with honours.
She is best known for her crime fiction but also for her popular plays. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English writer and playwright. "Postscript"-on the heterogeneous grounds that it appeared to have political tendencies, and that "our public do not want to be admonished by a woman." ĭorothy L. Indeed, the papers called "Christian Morality," "Forgiveness" and "Living to Work" were so unpopular with the persons who commissioned them that they were suppressed before they appeared: the first because American readers would be shocked by what they understood of it the second because what the Editor of a respectable newspaper wanted (and got) was Christian sanction for undying hatred against the enemy the third-originally intended for a Sunday evening B.B.C. I have called this collection of fugitive pieces "Unpopular Opinions," partly, to be sure, because to warn a person off a book is the surest way of getting him to read it, but chiefly because I have evidence that all the opinions expressed have in fact caused a certain amount of annoyance one way and the other. This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957)Įssay, non-fiction, politics, religion, Sherlock Holmes (Fictional character)
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