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April 13, 2008
The Source for Gowan's Name?
I’ve gathered from assorted sources that the artist that Dorothy L. Sayers modeled Gowan after, albeit distantly, was not a great favorite of hers. She made him stand-offish, ugly, snobbish and otherwise fairly unsympathetic. I noted the name “Gowan” associated with this most prosaic of businesses in town. (Click thumbnail for a larger image.) Did it exist at the time? Was Sayers tweaking the real life artist by picking for his character the name of a distinctly non-upper class establishment? Not at all sure but the possibility amuses me.
Filed under Literary Locations, Kirkcudbright, Dorothy L. Sayers and “The Five Red Herrings”.
Posted by eric at April 13, 2008 09:13 PM