The sense of place in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night is constructed right at the beginning when Harriet Vane returns to her old college at Oxford: Shrewsbury. The preface to the 1975 edition contains an apology to Oxford for tarnishing its reputation by giving it a new college: Shrewsbury, and by placing it in theContinue reading “Essay Review of Dorthy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night written as an undergrad”