Portraying Lesbians and Other Happy Single Women without Shocking Her Readers in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Detective Fiction

In 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers published, without attracting any unfavourable attention, a novel entitled Unnatural Death, in which most of the main characters are single women and some are obviously lesbians.Later, in both Strong Poison and Five Red Herrings, she depicted independent, artistic women wh... View More