As you already must know, she was one of the first women to get a degree in Oxford University, but what you may not know is that she graduated with first class honours in Modern Languages in 1915.
Given her knowledge in this subject, she published in 1923 her first novel, Whose body, which introduced her monocle-wearing detective character Lord Peter Wimsey for the first time. He was a hit among readers and Sayers’ most famous character through fourteen novels and short story collections, including Clouds of Witness (1926), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) and Five Red Herrings (1931). Gaudy Night was the culmination of the Wimsey saga, but thanks to Muriel Saint Clare Byrne (a Sayers’ friend who persuaded her to write a play), Lord Peter Wimsey was put on the stage in Busman’s Honeymoon, the last story starred by him on 1937.
Sayers then realized that she was fond of the stage and she was asked to write another play: The Zeal of Thy House, for the Canterbury Festival. This latter play was followed by six more, up to the Colchester Festival one, The Emperor Constantine in 1951. The most significant was The man born to be King, written for a BBC children program. She also wrote four other novels and two serial stories for means of communication.
Her work was widely diverse, including poetry, translations, letters, articles and essays. She also wrote many plays and radio broadcasts on Christian topics, such as Begin Here and The mind of the Maker (1941), in which she compares God with the human.
As Dante’s writings had intrigued her for a long time, she decided to teach herself old Italian and made a translation of the Divine Comedy after the end of the World War II. She also found time to finish her translation of Song of Roland from the old French, but not Dante’s third volume, Paradiso, because of her unexpected death on December 1957. Her friend Barbara Reynolds completed her work.
Given her knowledge in this subject, she published in 1923 her first novel, Whose body, which introduced her monocle-wearing detective character Lord Peter Wimsey for the first time. He was a hit among readers and Sayers’ most famous character through fourteen novels and short story collections, including Clouds of Witness (1926), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) and Five Red Herrings (1931). Gaudy Night was the culmination of the Wimsey saga, but thanks to Muriel Saint Clare Byrne (a Sayers’ friend who persuaded her to write a play), Lord Peter Wimsey was put on the stage in Busman’s Honeymoon, the last story starred by him on 1937.
Sayers then realized that she was fond of the stage and she was asked to write another play: The Zeal of Thy House, for the Canterbury Festival. This latter play was followed by six more, up to the Colchester Festival one, The Emperor Constantine in 1951. The most significant was The man born to be King, written for a BBC children program. She also wrote four other novels and two serial stories for means of communication.
Her work was widely diverse, including poetry, translations, letters, articles and essays. She also wrote many plays and radio broadcasts on Christian topics, such as Begin Here and The mind of the Maker (1941), in which she compares God with the human.
As Dante’s writings had intrigued her for a long time, she decided to teach herself old Italian and made a translation of the Divine Comedy after the end of the World War II. She also found time to finish her translation of Song of Roland from the old French, but not Dante’s third volume, Paradiso, because of her unexpected death on December 1957. Her friend Barbara Reynolds completed her work.
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