Eric IX
Eric IX (Eric the Saint), d. 1160, king of Sweden. He led (1157?) a Christian crusade to Finland, where he left the bishop of Uppsala in charge of missionary work. While attending mass he was killed by a Danish prince. Soon afterward the people began to revere him as a saint, and c.1290 he became the patron saint of Sweden. Feast: May 18.
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In Memoriam: Dorothy Sayers
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/6/1993; ; 649 words
; ...respite from "serious" writing, Dorothy Leigh Sayers - born June 13, 1893 - would be...wrote 11 detective novels led to Sayers' world-wide renown as a towering...Readers may address inquiries to Dorothy L. Sayers Centennial Celebration...
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Essay; Mysteries of the Heart; Celebrating the Birth of Dorothy L. Sayers
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/12/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Harriet Vane in "Gaudy Night" by Dorothy L. Sayers For me, a junior high school...June 13, is the centenary of Dorothy L. Sayers's birth in Oxford...Faithful, it should be said that Dorothy L. (for Leigh, her mother's maiden name...
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Wimsey and Piffle
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/3/1998; ; 700+ words
; THRONES, DOMINIONS By Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh St. Martin...job." So says Harriet Vane, Dorothy Leigh Sayers's character in Gaudy...Alzina Stone Dale, editor of Dorothy L. Sayers: The Centenary Celebration...
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A murder for Christmas.(Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Peter Wimsey whimsicalities of Dorothy L. Sayers, the genteel upper-crust clarifications...surfeits of lamprey of Ngaio Marsh. Dorothy Leigh Sayers, who would be likely to...Janet Hitchman's biography of Dorothy Sayers, Such a Strange Lady...
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Gazette: Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/12/1999; 700+ words
; ...the steam turbine, 1854; William Butler Yeats, poet, 1865; Elisabeth Schumann, operatic soprano, 1885; Dorothy Leigh Sayers, thriller writer and playwright, 1893. Deaths: Alexander the Great, 323 BC; Simon Tissot, physician, 1797...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/18/1997; 349 words
; ...Grable, actress, 1916. Deaths: Robert Nanteuil, engraver, 1678; Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, 1737; Dorothy Leigh Sayers, detective story writer, 1957; Ben Travers, writer of farces, 1980; Marguerite Yourcenar, historical novelist...
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Celebrating 200th anniversary of Nelson's visit to Wales with a member of his family.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); 8/24/2002; 700+ words
; ...by ``a passion to go on stage''. A highlight of Mrs Tribe's short acting career was appearing in 1949 in Dorothy Leigh Sayers' television nativity play He That Should Come as a barmaid. A year later she married Mr Tribe, the son of one...
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ANNIVERSARIES
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/17/1994; 406 words
; ...1879; Betty (Elizabeth Ruth) Grable, actress, 1916. Deaths: Antonio Stradivari, violin maker, 1737; Dorothy Leigh Sayers, detective story writer, 1957; Sam Wanamaker (Samuel Watenmaker), actor, director and producer, 1993...
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LITERARY CONVERTS: SPIRITUAL INSPIRATION IN AN AGE OF UNBELIEF.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...converts found support from cradle Catholic authors like Belloc, Dorothy Sayers, the Meynells, Tolkien, and Frank Sheed, as well as priests...Walker Percy, Denise Levertov, and Annie Dillard. DAVID J. LEIGH, S.J. Seattle University
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The grisly Girls
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 9/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...a Corpse, a private eye yarn by an unknown author, Leigh Brackett, which had exactly the tough, no- nonsense...aplenty in the detective novels of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers in the 1920s and '30s, Cornwell was the first of the...
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Dorothy Leigh Sayers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dorothy Leigh Sayers , 1893-1957, English writer, grad. Somerville College, Oxford...short stories featuring Wimsey were collected in Lord Peter (1972). Sayers is considered one of the masters of the detective story. Her novels...
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Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893–1957), novelist, religious playwright, and apologist. The daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she wrote...
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Sayers, Dorothy L.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Sayers, Dorothy L. ( Dorothy Leigh Sayers ) (1893–1957). Her detective fiction is among the classics of the genre, being outstanding for its well-researched backgrounds, distinguished style, observant characterization, and...
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William Wilkie Collins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...University Press, 1993. Robinson, Kenneth, Wilkie Collins: a biography, London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh), Wilkie Collins: a critical and biographical study, Toledo, Ohio: The Friends of the University...
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