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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Back then, not many Jews married outside the faith.
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True, but when she was writing the book, she was lying naked with one of us -- and, to her distress, he wouldn't marry her. See:
The Curious Case of Dorothy L. Sayers & the Jew Who Wasn’t There
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It turns out that at the time she created Lord Peter Wimsey, she was embroiled in what ended up as a desperately unhappy love affair with one John Cournos, a Russian-born Jewish novelist and poet. A bohemian figure, Cournos had fled the Russian revolution at age 10 with his parents and settled in America, then came to England to write. He and Sayers had a passionate though unconsummated romance, detailed for posterity in his otherwise forgotten ninth novel, The Devil Is an English Gentleman, which describes how they would lie naked on the couch together, arguing about whether to go further.
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I am totally sympathetic to Ms. Sayers's romantic angst, even if her defense against contemporary antisemitism charges, regarding
Whose Body?, maybe wasn't 1,000 percent accurate:
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"My own opinion is that the only people who were presented in a favourable light were the Jews!”
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I just found this thread, and it's been eight years since I read the book (I keep records
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