Transcript of “February, Sobbing and Blustering Its Lachrymose Way”
I’m reading Dorothy Sayers 1935 novel Gaudy Night. It’s a mystery novel that takes place at a fictional women’s college in Oxford, England, and she has such wonderful turns of phrase in there.
And one of them that I really liked was she started a sentence with, “February was sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way into March.”
It’s sobbing and blustering its lachrymose way. I love it.
Isn’t that wonderful? Her books hold up amazingly well.
I’ve read the whole series, but maybe it’s time for a reread. This is about much more than just a mystery novel.
It’s about women’s lives and roles in that era. It’s, yeah, and you’re right.
It does hold up very, very well.
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