A friend of mine said that I would enjoy a speech by Dorothy L. Sayers, given in 1938. He was right. I found the speech unusual, insightful, nervy — even exciting. Before getting into it, I should provide a refresher on Sayers. Until just the other day, I could remember more about Gale Sayers (the running back for the Chicago Bears, whose book was the basis of Brian’s Song, the 1971 movie).
Dorothy L. Sayers was an English writer born in 1893. She was an outstanding student at Oxford. She went on to write poems, plays, novels, essays, all sorts of things. She was chiefly known for her crime fiction, whose star sleuth was Lord Peter Wimsey. She wrote an important translation of The Divine Comedy. In short, she was a woman of letters. Sayers died in 1957.
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