Although she did not claim the label feminist, Sayers, a second-generation New Woman, portrayed the dilemmas of both her generation of emancipated women and the preceding generation of New Women in her later novels. She did so by incorporating into her fiction her interest in the debate over the changing place of women in society, also the theme of two of her essays. Although this had been her intention from her first detective novel, Whose Body? (1923), Sayers felt she did not achieve it until Gaudy Night. In an essay titled 'Gaudy Night' (1937) after her novel of the same name (1935), Sayers states that her goal in writing detective fiction was to bring it back in line with the mainstream of English literature she wished to produce a text 'less like a conventional detective story and more like a novel' (208). Her period of writing detective fiction (1923-37) was a brief phase in her overall career, and her objective in writing in this genre was specific. Sayers (1893-1957) published widely on a diverse range of topics. Even the dairy-maid in her simple bonnet has gone, to be replaced by a male mechanic in charge of a mechanical milking plant.A scholar, theologian, medievalist, playwright, and novelist, Dorothy L. It is all very well to say that woman’s place is the home-but modern civilisation has taken all these pleasant and profitable activities out of the home, where the women looked after them, and handed them over to big industry, to be directed and organised by men at the head of large factories. Here are the women’s jobs-and what has become of them? They are all being handled by men.

And (since in those days a man was often absent from home for months together on war or business) a very large share in the management of landed estates.

All the preserving, pickling and bottling industry, all the bacon-curing. The whole catering industry and-which would not please Lady Astor, perhaps-the whole of the nation’s brewing and distilling. “It is a formidable list of jobs: the whole of the spinning industry, the whole of the dyeing industry, the whole of the weaving industry.

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