White reacted negatively, storming out "in rage & misery" when Sayers admitted to being pregnant.įearing the effect her unmarried pregnancy would have on her parents, who were in their 70s, Sayers opted to hide herself away from friends and family. After a brief, intense, and mainly sexual relationship, Sayers discovered she was pregnant. In 1922 Sayers became involved with an unemployed motor car salesman named Bill White. This gave her useful insight into the advertising industry which she used in one of her mysteries, Murder Must Advertise. Sayers worked as a teacher and later as a copywriter in an advertising agency, S.H. Although women could not be granted degrees at that time, Sayers was among the first to receive a degree when the situation changed a few years later. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, taking first-class honours in modern languages. Henry Sayers, M.A., was chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford and headmaster of the Choir School. Sayers was born in Oxford, where her father, the Rev. Sayers is best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, a series of novels and short stories featuring an English aristocrat who is an amateur sleuth. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
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