During the Second World War through these plays, and other works like The Wimsey Papers (1939–40) and Begin Here: A War-Time Essay (1940), Sayers 'offered her countrymen a stirring argument for fighting', according to her biographer, Catherine Kenney. Some of her plays were broadcast on the BBC, others performed at the Canterbury Festival and some in commercial theatres. Towards the end of the 1930s, and without explanation, Sayers stopped writing crime stories and turned instead to religious plays and essays, and to translations. She also wrote 11 Montague Egg stories and several non-series stories. The Wimsey stories were popular, and successful enough for Sayers to leave the advertising agency where she was working. In 1923 she published Whose Body?, a murder mystery novel featuring the fictional Lord Peter Wimsey, and went on to write eleven novels and 21 short stories about the character. The same year she was invited to edit and contribute to the annual editions of Oxford Poetry, which she did for the next three years. I, which she followed two years later with a second, a slim volume titled Catholic Tales and Christian Songs. In 1916, a year after her graduation, Sayers published her first book, a collection of poems entitled Op.

This was unusual for a woman at the time, as women were not admitted as full members of the university until 1920 – five years after Sayers had completed her first-class degree in medieval French. Sayers was educated at home and then at the University of Oxford. Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is perhaps best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth.

Sayers 1893–1957) was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist she was also a student of classical and modern languages. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually stylised as Dorothy L.

The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers