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EN 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dorothy L. Sayers, Harriet Vane

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When sayers was writing (also agatha christie, for example) During the interwar period, mostly the 20s and. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared from hem. Harriet vane wish fulfillment for dorothy sayers, in some ways concerned with whether marrying will destroy her independence and intellectual commitment. Gaudy night is sometimes considered to be the first feminist detective novel. Detective writer, translator, poet, essayist attended oxford 1912-1915, on scholarship. Didn"t obtain a degree- because women weren"t allowed to- until a later regulation change received her ma in 1920. Need to prove and justify women"s intellectual and professional merit in gaudy night. Hitler was in power, but wwii hadn"t started yet. Eugenics are still a socially respectable thing to advocate at the time. People still could (and did) debate the merits of hitler"s policies in mainstream contexts. Fascism is still a popular political ideology in, among other countries, england and canada.

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