In 1916, a year after her graduation, Sayers published her first book, a collection of poems entitled Op. This was unusual for a woman at the time, as women were not admitted as full members of the university until 1920 – five years after Sayers had completed her first-class degree in medieval French. Sayers was educated at home and then at the University of Oxford. Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is perhaps best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories, set between the First and Second World Wars, which feature Lord Peter Wimsey, an English aristocrat and amateur sleuth. Sayers 1893–1957) was an English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist she was also a student of classical and modern languages. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (usually stylised as Dorothy L.
