Wimsey and Piffle

The Washington Post | May 3, 1998| | Copyright

THRONES, DOMINIONS

By Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh

St. Martin's. 312 pp. $23.95 "I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feeling should prevent me from doing my job." So says Harriet Vane, Dorothy Leigh Sayers's character in Gaudy Night, defending her decision not to be a homemaker. This defense of women's right to write echoes down through the years. Women of my generation and inclinations welcomed Sayers's strong challenge to traditions holding that the sexes were separate and not equal, that mystery writers were not ...

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