Given the mores of the time, perhaps this is not surprising. Nor did Sayers publicly acknowledge the boy as her biological son. Two years later, by which time she was already writing her detective novels, Sayers married Oswald Arthur "Mac" Fleming, a journalist whose professional name was "Atherton Fleming." They later adopted the young John, but he never lived in the Sayers household. Particulars about Baby." which revealed the child's parentage, swearing Shrimpton to silence. When Ivy agreed to take John, Sayers sent her another letter that began "Strictly Confidential.
She wrote to Ivy, telling her the sad story about "a friend" and asking for Ivy to take the child. Unable to return to her life or work with an unexplainable child, Sayers arranged for John Anthony to be raised by her cousin Ivy Shrimpton.
She remained with John for three weeks, nursing and caring for him. She went alone to a "mother's hospital" under an assumed name and the child, John Anthony, was born January 3, 1924, at Southbourne, Hampshire. She continued to work at Benson's until the beginning of her last trimester, at which point she pleaded exhaustion and took an extended leave. White reacted negatively, storming out "in rage & misery" when Sayers admitted to being pregnant.įearing the effect her unmarried pregnancy would have on her parents, who were in their 70s, Sayers opted to hide herself away from friends and family. After a brief, intense, and mainly sexual relationship, Sayers discovered she was pregnant. In 1922 Sayers became involved with an unemployed motor car salesman named Bill White. This gave her useful insight into the advertising industry which she used in one of her mysteries, Murder Must Advertise. Sayers worked as a teacher and later as a copywriter in an advertising agency, S.H. Although women could not be granted degrees at that time, Sayers was among the first to receive a degree when the situation changed a few years later. She was educated at Somerville College, Oxford, taking first-class honours in modern languages. Henry Sayers, M.A., was chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford and headmaster of the Choir School. Sayers was born in Oxford, where her father, the Rev. Sayers is best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, a series of novels and short stories featuring an English aristocrat who is an amateur sleuth. Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist.
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