![]() ![]() ![]() She grew up in the tiny village of Bluntisham in Huntingdonshire after her father was given the living there as rector of Bluntisham- cum- Earith. When Sayers was six, her father started teaching her Latin. Her father, originally from Littlehampton, West Sussex, was a chaplain of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and headmaster of Christ Church Cathedral School. Her mother was a daughter of Frederick Leigh, a solicitor whose family roots were in the landed gentry in the Isle of Wight, and had been born at "The Chestnuts", Millbrook, Hampshire. She was the daughter of Helen Mary Leigh and her husband, the Rev. Sayers, an only child, was born on 13 June 1893 at the Headmaster's House on Brewer Street in Oxford. Somerville College, Oxford, where Sayers studied and gained the inspiration for her novel Gaudy Night ![]()
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