Dorothy L Sayers

[wellinghall]

The Wimsey Family by C W Scott-Giles has been republished by the DLS Society.
http://www.sayers.org.uk/

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[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Do you know anything about the book?

"Our patron, PD James"? I had no idea.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

As I uderstand it, it draws together the family history from the published works of DLS, together with her much lesser-known works "The Wimsey Papers", "Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey" and "Mortimer Wimsey: Hermit of the Wash". I think that CW Scott-Giles was both a trained genealogist, and a correspondent of Dorothy L Sayers.

Sorry I haven't been corresponding much lately, BTW; I've been rather dopey, and a bit shell-shocked by work.

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Gaudy Night

is possibly my favorite book ever, in the limited sense that I have wanted to be Harriet as long as I have known her. But her world isn't rich enough to support me in obsession, unlike another.

I've been even more self-absorbed than usual, as well as out of town, and even less able to offer support to friends, so you did not miss much from me.*gratuitous hugs*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*hugs back*

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link - I have a twenty-year-old photocopy of someone else's copy of the book, and it would be great to have my own.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

It's a nice book.

I also have photocopies (from the DLS Society) of "The Wimsey Papers", "Papers Relating to the Family of Wimsey" and "Mortimer Wimsey of the Wash, Hermit", but they are so poor as to border on the illegible.