AS WIMSEY TAKES THEM

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 10

AS WIMSEY TAKES THEM

Dickens, Browning, Kipling. Chesterton, and even Edgar Wallace, have persuaded devoted admirers to band together to study the works of the masters And there is a Sherlock Homes logiology created by British and American aficionados, who are more intered in the verdicts of Baker Street than their creator, Ct nan Doyle.

Now a society has been formed to p- >mote and encourage the study of the works of Dorothy L. Sayers, creator of that most elegant of sleuths, I.ord Peter Wimsey, translator of the “Divine Comedy” into tercets, and ponular theologian. The society will have its offices and be based in Roslyn House, the house at Witham, Essex, where she lived and

died. Essex County Council has restored the house, and Mr lan Carmichael, the actor, has unveiled a plaque on it. The society is open to all admirers of Dorothy Sayers. Its object is to collect and preserve relics and reminiscences about her, and make them available to students and biographers. It will hold regular meetings to discuss specialist aspects

of Miss Sayers’s work, and an annual event to serve as a reunion and focus for her admirers from all over the world. Mr R. L. Clarke, chairman of the society, says: that the Dorothy L. Sayers Historical and Literary Society hopes to be of service to all those who revere the memory of this great writer, theologian, and Dante scholar.