Editing Strong Poison (section)

==Background==
While Sayers was working on her first novel, ''[[Whose Body?]]'', she began a relationship with [[John Cournos]], a writer of Russian-Jewish background.<ref name="Edwards">{{Cite book |title=The Golden Age of Murder |last=Edwards |first=Martin |publisher=Collins Crime Club |year=2017 |isbn=978-0008105983 |edition= Reprint |location=London |pages=20–21}}</ref> Cournos was an advocate of [[free love]]: he did not believe in marriage and did not want children.<ref name="DuBose">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kce5KJMgvAsC&q=cournos+disagreed&pg=PT318 |title=Women of Mystery: The Lives and Works of Notable Women Crime Novelists |last=DuBose |first=Martha Hailey |publisher=Thomas Dunne Books |year=2000 |location=New York |isbn=9780312276553 |access-date=22 December 2017}}</ref> Cournos pressed Sayers to have sex with contraception, but she, a [[High church|High Anglican]], resisted to avoid what she called "the taint of the rubber shop".<ref name="Edwards"/> Their relationship foundered on the mismatch of expectations,<ref name="Edwards"/> and within two years Cournos – apparently not believing in the ideas he had professed – had married somebody else.<ref name="DuBose"/> Both Sayers and Cournos later wrote fictionalised versions of their relationship: Sayers in ''Strong Poison'' (1930) and Cournos in ''The Devil Is an English Gentleman'' (1932).<ref name="Edwards"/><ref name="DuBose"/>