Also, Sayers was writing 60 or 70 years ago in an England when most ordinary people didn't have a lot of books and she could expect her readers to be those who had had a similar education to her. I can't imagine a publisher letting her get away with it today.
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Date: 2008-04-25 02:34 am (UTC)Also, Sayers was writing 60 or 70 years ago in an England when most ordinary people didn't have a lot of books and she could expect her readers to be those who had had a similar education to her. I can't imagine a publisher letting her get away with it today.