The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, Volume 2

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This second volume of Dorothy L. Sayers covers the seven years in which the greatest detective novelist of the golden age—and the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey—turns away from mystery writing to become a playwright and, in turn, a controversial figure. Accused on the one hand of blasphemy, acclaimed on the other as one of the most influential lay theologians of her time, she found herself drawn into a vast network of correspondence, dealing with a wide range of social concerns. These, after all, are the years of World War II, of air-raids, threats of invasion, rationing, lack of domestic help, congested travel, and blackouts. But there was no blackout in the creativity of Dorothy L. Sayers; in fact, this is the peak period f her creative endeavors: seventeen plays, several books, innumerable articles and talks—and hundreds of letters. The letters reveal the context of her published words and send the reader back to them with new understanding....