As a child she read widely in English and French, wrote and acted out plays and stories, and generally excelled in creative efforts and academics. As the precocious daughter of a clergyman, Dorothy began to study Latin at the age of six. Sayers is smart is akin to commenting on the capability of a neuroscientist. If you would ask me today, I would have much to say about why I read Sayers, but I will keep it simple: she’s smart she’s funny she’s relevant. Her work began to speak to me, here, now. But as I was exposed to more of her work, to the range of genres in which she wrote and excelled – poetry, plays, radio dramas, Christian apologetics, and even translations, I became enamored. Too many epigraphs by Shakespeare, Spencer, and other long-dead male writers complex characters who represent various classes of modern Britain after WWI and quote Latin, French, or speak with a broad Cockney accent plots and settings about spinsters, war veterans, churches, bell ringing, and advertising, to mention just a few. I tend to read detective novels as escapist fiction, and Sayers’ stories are often too sophisticated for that. I did not immediately love the work of Dorothy L. No management no box-office no dramatic critics and an audience of cheerful angels who don’t mind laughing. When we go to Heaven all I ask is that we shall be given some interesting job and allowed to get on with it.
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