Cover of Are Women Human?, which contains two of Sayers' feminist essays Sayers's most notable religious book is probably (1941) which explores at length the analogy between a human creator (especially a and plays) and the doctrine of in creation.
Sayers also wrote a number of short stories about, a wine salesman who solves mysteries. Her short story Absolutely Elsewhere refers to the fact that (in the language of modern physics) the only perfect alibi for a crime is to be outside its, while The Fascinating Problem of Uncle Meleager's Will contains a literary crossword puzzle. In, the and the principles of are explained. What (people cry) are women doing with this liberty of theirs? What woman really prefers a job to a home and family? “Now, it is frequently asserted that, with women, the job does not come first. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything 'funny' about woman's nature.” ―. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as 'The women, God help us!' Or 'The ladies, God bless them!' who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension who took their questions and arguments seriously who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious.
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