Lord Peter Wimsey
Lord Peter Wimsey was a British gentleman detective, major and writer (born 1890). He was born at Hampshire.
Lord Peter Wimsey in brief
- Born
- 1890
- Known for
- gentleman detective, major and writer
- Place of birth
- Hampshire
Formation and teaching
Lord Peter Wimsey studied at Eton College and Balliol College. The record notes the qualification Master of Arts.
Literature
14 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.
Lord Peter Wimsey, Debugging by Thinking, 2004. [Descargar pdf] EL MISTERIO DEL BELLONA CLUB (SERIE LORD PETER WIMSEY), 2026. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series, Serial Crime Fiction. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series, Serial Crime Fiction, 2015. Annotating the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories, The Chesterton Review, 1984. THE MARION E. WADE CENTER WHEATON COLLEGE, WHEATON, IL, 1985. ‘I suppose I’ve never been really right since the war’: Traumatised Masculinities in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, Crime Fiction Studies, 2024. Review of Dorothy L. Sayers, A Biography: Death, Dante, and Lord Peter Wimsey, Sehnsucht: The C.S. Lewis Journal, 2023. Finding the Female Sidekick in the Lord Peter Wimsey Novels, The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction, 2021. The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series, 2015. Conundrums for the Long Week-End: England, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Lord Peter Wimsey, 2000. LORD PETER WIMSEY: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957), 2018. ‘It is Introspective, and I Want to Introspect’: Detection, Isolation, and Neurotypicality in Crime Fiction, c. 1891–1940, Open Library of Humanities, 2019. “We’ve had quite a Shakespearean evening, haven’t we?”: Shakespeare and Dorothy Sayers, Parole Rubate, 2023.
Scholarly footprint
Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Evidence base
This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 16 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.
Chronology
- 1890Lord Peter Wimsey born at Hampshire.
Sources
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- 1.
[Descargar pdf] EL MISTERIO DEL BELLONA CLUB (SERIE LORD PETER WIMSEY), 2026
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Annotating the Lord Peter Wimsey Stories, The Chesterton Review, 1984
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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- 4.
The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series, Serial Crime Fiction
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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The Maturity of Lord Peter Wimsey and Authorial Innovation Within a Series, Serial Crime Fiction, 2015
scholarly publication · Scholarly
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Directory of Open Access Journals lists 2 articles naming Lord Peter Wimsey.
open access index · Unverified
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Semantic Scholar corpus, 8 publications naming Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q1538721: Lord Peter Wimsey
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
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“Lord Peter Wimsey”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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