Dorothy Leigh Sayers became famous as a writer, one of the early women detective novelists and a poet. She also wrote numerous plays about religious themes and was a well known lay theologian in her middle years. She was born in 1893 to a clergyman, Henry Sayers in Oxford. In childhood her family moved to a remote parish in the Fens, where there were relatively few middle class or gentry families. So she grew up somewhat isolated from her contemporaries. Her parents often had relatives living with them, such as elderly aunts or grandparents and Dorothy got on better with older people. She sometimes shared lessons with other children... but in her teens she went to a good boarding school, to prepare for going to University.
She was a very clever child and enjoyed lessons and it was clear that she had the talents to do well at Oxford... though at the time Oxford did not grant full degrees to women. Her family were not all that well off and Dorothy hoped to be able to earn her living.. unlike many girls of her class.
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