{"id":6957,"date":"2019-09-14T17:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2019-09-14T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T16:07:16","slug":"the-bloomsbury-of-dorothy-l-sayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2019\/09\/the-bloomsbury-of-dorothy-l-sayers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bloomsbury of Dorothy L Sayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In the next of our <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/literaryfestival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literary Footprints 2019<\/a> posts, Sue McCarthy highlights the indelible influence of Bloomsbury on the life and work of Dorothy L Sayers. You can discover more on Sue&#8217;s walk <em>Dorothy L Sayers Bloomsbury<\/em> wh<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">ich features as part of our annual October literary festival, full booking details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/walks\/?guide=Sue+McCarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sue&#8217;s walks page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5663\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Footprints of London Literary Festival\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If the name Dorothy L Sayers simply conjures up an image of Edward Petherbridge or Ian Carmichael portraying a \u2018silly ass\u2019 aristocratic sleuth with a monocle, perhaps it is time to think again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6961\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Dorothy-L-Sayers-books.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Lord Peter Wimsey\u2019s fast cars and ample wealth may have been created as wish fulfillment in hard times, but Sayers\u2019 reality was much closer to that of her fictional heroine Harriet Vane, an independent woman of limited means trying to make a career as a writer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">D L Sayers\u2019 own life and the London in which she lived and worked shine through several of her novels and short stories. Pym\u2019s agency in <em>Murder Must Advertise <\/em>is modelled closely on Benson\u2019s, where Sayers worked for many years as a successful copywriter. In <em>Gaudy Night<\/em> it is Sayers\u2019 own first floor bedsit overlooking Mecklenburg Square that is home for Harriet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When we first meet Harriet in <em>Strong Poison<\/em> she is on trial for her life, accused of murder. Is there any parallel with Sayers\u2019 own life? Is this literary revenge on her own faithless lover?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Despite the murders, Sayers\u2019 writing often has a light touch and ready wit. Miss Climpson\u2019s \u201ccattery\u201d of female <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6962\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sue-Dorothy-L-Sayers-walk.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>investigators disguised as a secretarial agency appears in several stories and is a nice nod to Sherlock Holmes\u2019 Bow Street Irregulars, the street urchins who are his eyes and ears. Miss Murchison\u2019s nail-biting infiltration of the Bedford Row office of a murderous solicitor makes the heart beat faster!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This walk explores places where Sayers lived and worked, and her personal and professional life unfolds and interweaves with that of her characters. Fact and fiction overlap on the walk as they do in the novels where, for one example, fictional pathologist James Lubbock shares a strikingly similar career with real-life Bernard Spilsbury, each living in the same Bloomsbury Square and each acquiring a knighthood at much the same time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Follow the link for the full list of our <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/literaryfestival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literary Footprints 2019 walks<\/a> and if you&#8217;re feeling particularly curious (and energetic!) then why not take advantage of our great value <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/literary-footprints-festival-season-ticket-tickets-68485059657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">season ticket<\/a> which for only \u00a349 allows you one free place on every Literary Footprints walk throughout October!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next of our Literary Footprints 2019 posts, Sue McCarthy highlights the indelible influence of Bloomsbury on the life and work of Dorothy L Sayers. 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