Certainly her plots are ingenious and intricate, and she relishes technical detail and literary quotation, although QD Leavis once cuttingly remarked "She displays knowingness about literature without any sensitiveness to it or any feeling for quality". Part of the Golden Age of mystery writers working between the wars, Sayers is often credited as the most intelligent of them all. Sayers was a keen motorbike rider, and has earned quiet respect in certain circles for the faultless descriptions of these machines in her books. Nevertheless, she admired the copywriter's deft use of English: "the richest, noblest, most flexible and sensitive language ever written or spoken." Did you know? While she apparently enjoyed the work and was good at it, in later essays she robustly condemned the business of creating need where none existed. Other jobsįrom 1922 to 1931 she was a copywriter at the London advertising agency, Bensons. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, she left in 1915 with a first class honours degree in modern languages. Godolphin School in Salisbury, then on to Somerville College, Oxford, with a scholarship. The headmaster's house at Christchurch Cathedral School, Oxford.
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