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POSTCARD BIOGRAPHIES FROM THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: 2; P D James on Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957)
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Dorothy L Sayers, Oxford educated, only child of a clergyman, was a religious dramatist, pugnacious polemicist and translator of Dante, but her fame rests on the popularity of eleven detective novels featuring her aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. An innovator of manner not matter, her vigorous prose, intelligence, lively characterisation, humour and effective use of setting early established her as among the most influential, if controversial, writers of detective fiction.
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