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- In the autumn of 1912, a group of young women founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford, that changed their lives — and forged a path for generations of ambitious women to come. They called themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society' to prevent anyone else from calling them that first.
Dec 16, 2019 · Brought to life by Dr Mo Moulton in this celebration of feminism and female friendship, Mutual Admiration Society reveals how Sayers and the members of MAS reshaped the social order – and how, together, they fought their way into a new world for women in Interwar England.
Oct 8, 2024 · In the autumn of 1912, a group of young women founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford, that changed their lives — and forged a path for generations of ambitious women to come. They called themselves the 'Mutual Admiration Society' to prevent anyone else from calling them that first.
Oct 31, 2019 · As Moulton convincingly demonstrates, that iconic union of equals owes much to the enduring friendship of women who first met decades before as members of the Mutual Admiration Society. The book excavates the social and emotional context of the lives of four indomitable women with painstaking affection; it is as valuable as it is enjoyable.
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Nov 5, 2019 · Author Mo Moulton doesn’t allow Sayers to dominate but gives us the story of the young women who, in 1912, formed what they termed the Mutual Admiration Society — DLS herself, Muriel St Clare Byrne, Charis Frankenburg, Dorothy Rowe and others.
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The Mutual Admiration Society (MAS) was the literary club started in 1912 by the crime writer Dorothy L Sayers and a group of her Somerville friends during their first term at Oxford. The name was ironic; it was, said Sayers, what people will call us anyway, but it was accurate: the MAS continued to.
Nov 7, 2019 · Dubbing themselves the Mutual Admiration Society, Sayers and her classmates remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they fought for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal...
May 30, 2024 · United by interlocking themes, subjects, a gender and genre perspective, One of these, a book I named more than a year ago bow: Mo Moulton’s The Mutual Admiration Society. The title is off-putting, but the subtitle tries to explain the book’s content in an appealing way: How Dorothy Sayers and Her Circle Remade Their World for Women .
