I have loved her novels since youth I have also become convinced, however, that her intellectual gifts and deep faith, allied to her often messy personal life, produced religious writings that deserve continued attention. I, for one, think that there is a case to be made for Sayers’s addition to the Common Worship calendar. These anniversaries invite a re-examination of her legacy. It is also the 130th anniversary of her birth, and the 80th anniversary of the publication of her classic sequence of radio plays, The Man Born to be King. It is 100 years since the first publication of her debut novel Whose Body. The year 2023 is something of an “anniversary-fest” for Sayers. It is not for her spiritual writings or her translations of Dante. One might not unreasonably say, “Sayers? The thriller-writer?” Certainly, in so far as she continues to find a readership today, it is for her ingenious detective novels featuring her aristocratic sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, and her cast of wonderful characters, such as Harriet Vane and Miss Climpson. Her addition may come as something of a surprise. Her citation calls her an “Apologist and Spiritual Writer”. IN 2022, a new name was added officially to the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States: Dorothy L.
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