Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( ;Sering dibaca , tetapi Sayers menyebut dirinya sendiri  dan memakai inisial tengahnya untuk memfasilitasi pengucapan tersebut.  ) adalah seorang penulis kejahatan, penyair, pengarang drama, esayis, penerjemah dan Humanis Kristen asal Inggris. Ia juga merupakan murid bahasa klasik dan modern. Dia belajar di Somerville College, Oxford lulus pada tahun 1915. Sayers memperoleh gelar sastra pada abad pertengahan di Universitas Oxford. Dia merupakan perempuan pertama yang lulus dari Universitas Oxford.

Ia dikenal atas karya-karya misterinya, serangkaian novel dan cerpen yang berlatar belakang Perang Dunia Pertama dan Kedua yang menampilkan aristokrat dan pemeriksa amatir Lord Peter Wimsey yang ditulisnya di novel Whose Body yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1923 dan masih populer pada masa sekarang. Namun, Sayers sendiri menganggap terjemahannya dari Divine Comedy karya Dante merupakan karya terbaiknya. Ia juga dikenal atas drama-drama, kritikan sastra dan esai-esai buatannya.

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 Referensi 
 Op. I by Dorothy Sayers (poetry): digital.library.upenn.edu
 The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers: Audio of this Essay 
 Brabazon, James, Dorothy L. Sayers: a Biography (1980; New York: Avon, 1982) 
 Dale, Alzina Stone, Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers (1993; backinprint.com, 2003) 

 McGregor, Robert Kuhn & Lewis, Ethan Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 2000) 
 Prescott, Barbara, "Dorothy L. Sayers & the Mutual Admiration Society: Friendship and Creative Writing in an Oxford Women's Literary Group." INKLINGS FOREVER, Vol. 10. Proceedings of the 2016 Frances W. Eubank Colloquium on Lewis & Friends. (Taylor University, 2017)
 Reynolds, Barbara, Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993; rev. eds 1998, 2002) 
 Sørsdal, Randi, From Mystery to Manners: A Study of Five Detective Novels by Dorothy L. Sayers, Masters thesis, University of Bergen, bora.uib.no

 Bacaan tambahan dan karya terpelajar 
 Brown, Janice, The Seven Deadly Sins in the Work of Dorothy L. Sayers (Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1998) 
 Connelly, Kelly C. "From Detective Fiction to Detective Literature: Psychology in the Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers and Margaret Millar." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.3 (Spring 2007): 35–47
 Coomes, David, Dorothy L. Sayers: A Careless Rage for Life (1992; London: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1997) 
 Dean, Christopher, ed., Encounters with Lord Peter (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) 
 —, Studies in Sayers: Essays presented to Dr Barbara Reynolds on her 80th Birthday (Hurstpierpoint: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1991) 
 Downing, Crystal, Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy Sayers (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) 
 Gorman, Anita G., and Leslie R. Mateer. "The Medium Is the Message: Busman's Honeymoon as Play, Novel, and Film." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 54–62
 Kenney, Catherine, The Remarkable Case of Dorothy L. Sayers (1990; Kent, OH, & London: Kent State University Press, 1992) 
 Lennard, John, 'Of Purgatory and Yorkshire: Dorothy L. Sayers and Reginald Hill's Divine Comedy', in Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (Tirril: Humanities-Ebooks, 2007), pp. 33–55. 
 Loades, Ann. "Dorothy L. Sayers: War and Redemption." In Hein, David, and Edward Henderson, eds. C. S. Lewis and Friends: Faith and the Power of Imagination, pp. 53–70. London: SPCK, 2011.
 Nelson, Victoria, L. is for Sayers: A Play in Five Acts (Dreaming Spires Publications, 2012) 
 Prescott, Barbara, Lyric Muse: The Oxford Poetry of Dorothy L. Sayers. (©2017, Prepublication Ms.)
 Webster, Peter, 'Archbishop Temple's offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L. Sayers'. In: From the Reformation to the Permissive Society. Church of England Record Society (18). Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, 2010, pp. 565–582. . Full text in SAS-Space
 Young, Laurel. "Dorothy L. Sayers and the New Woman Detective Novel."CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.4 (Summer 2005): 39–53

 Pranala luar 

Umum
 The Dorothy L. Sayers Society


Arsip
 Dorothy Sayers archives at the Marion E. Wade Center  at Wheaton College






Artikel
 Dorothy L Sayers in Galloway—the scene of her novel Five Red Herrings (1931)
 "Dorothy L. Sayers: A Christian Humanist for Today" by Mary Brian Durkin
 "Second Glance: Dorothy Sayers and the Last Golden Age" by Joanna Scutts 

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