![]() Some time ago, I wrote a post On Marketable Skills in which I stated that I am sick of statements like, "Get a real job"or "Maybe you should major in something useful" because I don't really see the point in someone who really loves and wants to do art history somehow trying to force herself into becoming an engineer because that's where the money and jobs are. On the other hand, people seem to love the females that populate her novels, most notably Harriet Vance, and Sayers herself says all sorts of fantastically eloquent things, some of which come through in this volume. ![]() ![]() On the one hand, the novels of hers I've read featuring Lord Peter Wimsey present him as an elitist jerk who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and that he deserves all the ridiculous amounts of money that he has. I am really not sure what I think of Dorothy Sayers. It's a very slim volume- only 67 pages, and that's with a 15 page introduction- but it was really wonderful to read. Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society is a book I didn't expect to like nearly as much as I did.
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