translated Dante's La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso for the Penguin Classics. She wrote a study of Dante's life and work, Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man. In 1993 Reynolds published a biography of Sayers, who was her god-mother, called Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul (1993). She also edited four volumes of Sayers's letters and an additional volume. Bibliography Footnotes 1914 births 2015 deaths British centenarians Italian–English translators British lexicographers People educated at St Paul's Girls' School Academics of the University of Nottingham Academics of the University of Warwick Alumni of University College London Wheaton College (Illinois) faculty Women lexicographers 20th-century translators 20th-century women writers Women centenarians