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"Lord Peter Wimsey - amateur detective, man of fashion, talented musician, and wealthy intellectual - is known to legions of readers. His enduring presence and popularity is a tribute to his creator, Dorothy L. Sayers, who brought Lord Peter to life during "the long week-end" between the First and Second World Wars, as British aristocracy began to change, making way for a modern world."
"In Conundrums for the Long Week-End, Robert McGregor and Ethan...
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"After Dorothy L. Sayers became famous for her fictional sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, she began investigating the mysteries of Anglo-Catholic Christianity, writing plays for both stage and radio. However, because her modernist contemporaries disdained both best-sellers and religious fiction, Sayers has been largely overlooked by the academy. Writing Performances is the first work to position Sayers's diverse writings within the critical climate of high...
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This book was written in the hope of awakening new readers not just to her enormously good murder mysteries, but to the remarkable breadth of Dorothy L. Sayers's work as a whole--fiction and criticism, religious drama, aesthetic theory, and the magnificent Dante translation that climaxed her achievements--all carried out despite anguishing personal difficulties.
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The six women writers discoussed in this book - Olive Schreiner, Edith Wharton, Flora Macdonald Mayor, Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy L. Sayers and Antonia White - are all post-Victorian and lived through a time when ideas about class, religion and the family were changing drastically.
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This volume, which examines the special contributions of a number of women mystery writers, sheds light on this significant example of common interests in recreational reading among women and men and the reasons behind the early and continuing uncharacteristic near-equality of both sexes in this field of endeavor.
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