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The Nine Tailors is a 1934 mystery novel by the British writer Dorothy L. Sayers, her ninth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.The story is set in the Lincolnshire Fens, and revolves around a group of bell-ringers at the local parish church.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (/ s ɛər z / SAIRZ; [n 2] 13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.. Born in Oxford, Sayers was brought up in rural East Anglia and educated at Godolphin School in Salisbury and Somerville College, Oxford, graduating with first class honours in medieval French.
Primary education is divided into three stages using terms introduced by Dorothy Sayers in her essay The Lost Tools of Learning: "poll-parrot", "pert", and "poetic". According to Sayers, these phases are roughly coordinated with human development and would ideally be coordinated with each individual student's development. [19]
Sayers’ plot hinged on the eyewitness account of Gervase the Monk who attributed the fall to "either the vengeance of God or the envy of the Devil." [1] Based on this enigmatic line of Gervase’s, Sayers created a prideful William of Sens whose intrigue with the choir’s benefactress leads inadvertently to the tragic accident. The title of ...
The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1944–1950, A Noble Daring: 1999: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: 1951–1957, In the Midst of Life: 2000: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time: 2002: The Dorothy L Sayers Society: A supplement ...
The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric. [ 1 ] The trivium is implicit in De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella , but the term was not used until the Carolingian Renaissance , when it was coined in imitation of the ...
Regarded in the Christian world as something of a classic, it is often quoted. [citation needed]In The Mind of the Maker, one of her most profound works, Sayers contends that the creative process in art works in ways that correspond to the dynamic relation among the three Persons of the Trinity in Christian theology—and that the activity of one illuminates the activity of the other.
Striding Folly is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1972, it contains the final three Lord Peter stories. The first two, "Striding Folly" and "The Haunted Policeman", were previously published in Detection Medley (1939), an anthology of detective stories. The third one, "Talboys ...