Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking “Are Women Human?” Women’s rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers’s lifetime she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rightsĭorothy L. Ī group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton.
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