http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2004/02/sayers_dorothy_3.php Comments on Sayers, Dorothy L.: (01) Whose Body? en Copyright 2008 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:43:31 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.36 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Pam wrote on February 23, 2004 at 12:05 PM: <p>Surely if anybody's a Mary Sue in the Wimsey stories, it's Harriet Vane?<br /> <br /> (I'm not saying she is one, just that if any of the characters is an idealized auctorial stand-in, it's Vane.)</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2004/02/sayers_dorothy_3.php#c3900 Kate wrote on February 23, 2004 at 10:58 PM: <p>No kidding--she's a _mystery_ _novelist_, for goodness' sake. That's a side reason that the accusations of Mary Sue-dom against Peter annoy me: attempting to shoehorn Peter into the category, when there's a much more obvious candidate available, seems more like a vendetta than reasoned critique (and now I'm exaggerating for effect, but you know what I mean). <br /> <br /> I don't think Harriet is a Mary Sue either, but I could make a heck of a lot better case for her than for Peter.</p> http://www.steelypips.org/weblog/2004/02/sayers_dorothy_3.php#c3901