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The Wimsey Family: A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence with Dorothy L. Sayers
The Wimsey Family A Fragmentary History Compiled from Correspondence with Dorothy L Sayers Author:Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles During the nineteen thirties and forties Dorothy L Sayers had a long and continuing correspondence with C W Scott-Giles, Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary, a man extremely knowledgeable in heraldry. Together they explored the history of the Wimsey family taking it back as far as the Norman Conquest. Mr Scott-Giles used this correspondenc... more »e to present the Wimsey family history and illustrated it with his own heraldic drawings. The history is, of course, fascinating and tells of such outré characters as Lord Mortimer Wimsey, the Hermit of the Wash; Baron Fulk de Wimsey, or Guimsey, who encouraged King Richard I to persist in the siege of Acre; Viscount St. George, son of the tenth Duke of Denver, and his “nine-days-wonder” marriage in 1751; and Roger de Guimsey who followed Duke William in his invasion of England in 1066.
Among the illustrations are the Wimsey Arms: sable, three mice courant argent; Crest: a domestic cat crouched as to spring, proper, etc; and a monumental brass of Gerald de Wimsey, first Baron, c.1235-1300.
With a continuing rise in popularity of Dorothy L Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey novels, this little volume, delightfully tongue-in-cheek, in a blue-stocking way, will undoubtedly appeal to a very wide readership.« less