Research 

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Autobiography

  • Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time, vol. 5

    • Note: this volume contains two autobiographical narratives, unpublished in Sayers’s lifetime

Biography

Dante and the Divine Comedy

  • Introductory Papers on Dante by Dorothy L. Sayers (collected essays)

  • Further Papers on Dante: His Heir and His Ancestors by Dorothy L. Sayers (collected essays)

  • The Poetry of Search and Statement: On Dante and Other Writers by Dorothy L. Sayers (collected essays)

  • Hell, trans. by Dorothy L. Sayers (1950)

    • see also “Hell” on the Dorothy L. Sayers Podcast

  • Purgatory, trans. by Dorothy L. Sayers (1955)

  • Paradise, trans. by Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds (1962)

  • The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers Encounter with Dante by Barbara Reynolds (1989)

  • The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams by R.H. Gibson (forthcoming)

G.K. Chesterton

Letters

  • The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist, vol. 1, ed. by Barbara Reynolds (1996)

  • The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright, vol. 2, ed. by Barbara Reynolds (1997)

  • The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1944-1953: A Noble Daring, vol. 3, (1997)

  • The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, 1954-1957: In the Midst of Life, Vol. 4, ed. by Barbara Reynolds (2000)

Lewis, C.S.

Medievalism

  • “Angelic Work: The Medieval Sensibilities of Dorothy L. Sayers” by Crystal Downing (2013)

Poetry

Sin

Trinity, The

Women

Writing

  • Season 4 of the Dorothy L. Sayers Podcast

  • Writing Performances by Crystal Downing (2004)

  • Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition by Christine Colon (2018)

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