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Maker and Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers
Revised for the 1993 centennial celebration of the birth of Dorothy L. Sayers, this biography describes a life profuse with literary products as rich and varied as her past.
Paperback, 180 pages
Published
January 19th 2003
by Backinprint.com
(first published January 1st 1978)
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This biography was not the first to go against Dorothy Sayers' expressed wish not to have a biography written for 50 years after her death; that honour goes to Hitchman's "Such a Strange Lady." But it is an early one, and although Dale appears to have had some co-operation in terms of quotation permissions and access to Sayers' letters, the biography is certainly not the "authorized" (that is Brabazon's). Brabazon himself calls this a "juvenile" biography in his bib...more
An easy to understand but badly written biography. Dale, an American writer, gives historical and cultural context to the events and forces in Sayers' life and explains in depth things that an English writer takes as a given. This can however feel like an irritating "dumbing down" and over-explanation. There are also handy maps of Sayers' London and England as well as sketches of buildings and a couple of photographs.
Dale passes by what has already been said in the previou...more
Dale passes by what has already been said in the previou...more
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