Great memories but I don't read them anymore.
I think I have to keep the Busman's Honeymoon. Also have to look for my copy of Gaudy Night. Many of my favourite authors were either female, had female main characters or both. There was more than just Miss Marple.
Did just get complete works on Amazon...
ReplyDeleteI just discovered Gaudy Night and the other Wimsey/Vane books (which is like a sub series of the series) this year. However, read them all as library e-books on my Kindle. I would snap them up if I found them in actual book form, though.
ReplyDeleteA sudden pang of old man's memory. I met Dorothy Sayers in 1977, when she was doing a series of lectures on Dante. I've never found a better translation - and I've looked.
ReplyDeleteYou met Dorothy L. Sayers Dan Weese? Lucky!!!!!
ReplyDeleteM Sinclair Stevens Yes, I kept the Wimsey/Vane physical books I have. I'm missing Strong Poison. When I was at a loss of what to read Fred used to suggest "That book with the butterfly on it" meaning Gaudy Night.
In many ways they are timeless - in others there was a really high education assumption.
Patricia Wentworth used the same twist at the end of all her stories but I loved Mrs Pollifax and Gilman's other writing. I think young women would relate to The Tightrope Walker.
ReplyDeleteI'm donating because I think others will enjoy them. I couldn't landfill them
ReplyDeleteCass Morrison I'd never send a book to the landfill either. Luckily, here in Austin our library system has an excellent recycling system and a store "Recycled Reads". I frequently go there to rescue books. I can't bear the thought of them being homeless.
ReplyDeleteDid you try any of the later Campion stories?
ReplyDeleteI read them the most recent Campion stories first so I was quite surprised by the early ones.
ReplyDelete... with me, it was Sayer's Dante which came first. I'd never been much of a man for mysteries. There must be a name for the sort of perversion, where guys like me go crazy for intelligent women. Had this problem all my adult life.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I was reading a bunch of British authors at the time, Owen Barfield, G.K. Chesterton, Charles Williams. Dorothy Sayers fit right into that mix. I read pretty much everything I could lay my hands on, thereafter.
... so I went through some old diaries and have a correction to make. I did not meet Dorothy Sayers, I met Dr. Barbara Reynolds, who completed Sayers' translation of Paradiso.
ReplyDeletewheaton.edu - Barbara Reynolds
Forgive me for conflating the two women. I could not possibly have met Dorothy Sayers: she died in 1957.
Dan Weese What I like is that you went back to your old diaries to confirm your memories. Yeah. I do that.
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