She begins a relationship with Philip Boyes, a more literary but far less successful writer who professes not to believe in marriage, and she agrees to live with him without marrying. She has had some success as a writer of detective stories, living and socialising with other artists in Bloomsbury. Her parents both died while she was quite young and she was left to make her own fortune at the age of 23. She was an undergraduate at Shrewsbury College, Oxford (based on Sayers' own Somerville College, the location of which is given as the Balliol College Sports Grounds, now partly occupied by a residential annexe, on Holywell Street) and took a First in English. Harriet Vane is the only daughter of a country doctor. She eventually returns his love ( Gaudy Night) and marries him ( Busman's Honeymoon). In Have His Carcase, she collaborates with Wimsey to solve a murder but still finds him to be overbearing and superficial. The detective falls in love with her and proposes marriage but she refuses to begin a relationship with him, traumatised as she is by her dead lover's treatment of her and her recent ordeal. Vane, a mystery writer, initially meets Lord Peter Wimsey while she is on trial for poisoning her lover ( Strong Poison). Harriet Deborah Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is a fictional character in the works of British writer Dorothy L.
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