Sayers work was highly respected and traversed many different genres, including poetry, fiction, plays, radio scripts, literary criticism, theology, academic works, and essays. After university she went on to work in publishing, copywriting and advertising before earning her living full time as a writer, by no means the norm for women of her time. Sayers was awarded her MA when the rules changed in 1920. In 1915, she was one of the first women to graduate from the university, although at the time it was still not possible for women to be officially awarded degrees. She had a good sense of humour and wit, and a penchant for wearing dramatic clothes. She went on to study modern languages and medieval literature at Somerville College in Oxford. During her school years her poetry was published in The Godolphin Gazette, the school’s magazine (1909-11). Her main link to Salisbury was her education as a boarding student at Godolphin School: the City has a blue plaque detailing this. As a woman writer of her time, Sayers leaves behind a tremendous literary legacy.ĭorothy Sayers was born in Oxford in 1893 and spent her early years in Cambridgeshire. Sayers (1893 -1957) was a talented writer, translator, poet, dramatist, playwright and essayist, best known for her detective fiction, featuring the characters Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane.
(116 mm x 99 mm) image size Given by Terence Pepper, 2013 Photographs Collection NPG x194180ĭorothy L. Dorothy Sayers by Unknown photographer vintage print, early 1920s4 5/8 in.
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