Gaudy Night Summary
Dorothy L. Sayers

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Gaudy Night Summary

Gaudy Night, by Dorothy L. Sayers, is an interesting mystery novel that begins when Harriet Vane decides to attend a reunion, known as a Gaudy, at Shrewsbury College, a fictitious woman's college at Oxford University. Harriet has not returned to Shrewsbury since graduating. She becomes a famous mystery writer after being acquitted for a murder she did not commit. The man who saves her is Lord Peter Wimsey, who has been...

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Dorothy L. Sayers Biographies (5)

Dorothy L. Sayers

10,248 words, approx. 35 pages

Biography EssayHer dozen detective novels and two dozen short stories in that genre established the reputation of Dorothy Leigh Sayers in the 1920s and 1930s as a major writer of mysteries; they also ... Read more

Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers

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Dorothy Leigh Sayers , British essayist, novelist, critic, scholar, and playwright, who made her reputation with the Lord Peter Wimsey detective stories, spent her final years on scholarship and chan... Read more

Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers

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Although Dorothy L. Sayers (she always insisted on the use of her middle initial) later developed various writing careers, including religious stage and radio drama, essays, and translations of Dant... Read more

Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers

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Her dozen detective novels and two dozen short stories in the genre established the reputation of Dorothy Leigh Sayers in the 1920s and 1930s as a major writer of mysteries; they also established Lo... Read more

Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers

1,215 words, approx. 5 pages

Although Dorothy L. Sayers is known chiefly for her detective fiction and somewhat less well for her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, she was also a prolific and controversial essayist and lectur... Read more

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