Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton
In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and five other women at the vanguard of equal rights, who were among the first to receive full degrees from Oxford University.
An enjoyable anthem to friendship -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *
It is a tribute to that precious but still unsung thing: the loving bond between female friends, based on intellectual exchange and deep affection -- Charlotte Higgins * Guardian *
Hugely enjoyable. . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, funny, brave women of the Mutual Admiration Society -- Anna Carey * Sunday Business Post *
Rich and careful . . . [Mutual Admiration Society] excavates the social and emotional context of the lives of four indomitable women with painstaking affection; it is as valuable as it is enjoyable -- Sophie Read * TES *
Well-written and fascinating, it's equally successful as a biography and social history -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express *
Written with humour and insight, this is the fascinating group biography of Dorothy Sayers and five friends who formed a writing group at Somerville College Oxford in 1912 . . . This fine celebration of female friendship and early feminism reflects how far we have travelled since the post-Edwardian era * The Lady *
A blend of group biography and social history, Mutual Admiration Society tells a quintessentially English story -- Francis Wilson * The Times *
Mo Moulton shows [Dorothy L.] Sayers setting out in Gaudy Night, her most psychologically astute and least conventional novel, to present her own philosophy of women's intrinsic intellectual equality . . . Moulton's book sheds new light on Sayers's evolution as a writer, showing how some of her best work occurred in collaboration with her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne * The New Yorker *
This lively, rigorous, and surprising history of Dorothy L. Sayers and her circle is a clear-eyed, optimistic look at a particularly critical stage in the evolution of feminism * Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person And Other Stories *
This is an extraordinary book . . . Beautifully written, animated by a sense of quiet power and amazing ambition, this is essential reading for anyone interested in modern British history -- Matt Houlbrook, author of Prince of Tricksters
It is a tribute to that precious but still unsung thing: the loving bond between female friends, based on intellectual exchange and deep affection -- Charlotte Higgins * Guardian *
Hugely enjoyable. . Modern-day readers can thank the ambitious, complicated, funny, brave women of the Mutual Admiration Society -- Anna Carey * Sunday Business Post *
Rich and careful . . . [Mutual Admiration Society] excavates the social and emotional context of the lives of four indomitable women with painstaking affection; it is as valuable as it is enjoyable -- Sophie Read * TES *
Well-written and fascinating, it's equally successful as a biography and social history -- Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express *
Written with humour and insight, this is the fascinating group biography of Dorothy Sayers and five friends who formed a writing group at Somerville College Oxford in 1912 . . . This fine celebration of female friendship and early feminism reflects how far we have travelled since the post-Edwardian era * The Lady *
A blend of group biography and social history, Mutual Admiration Society tells a quintessentially English story -- Francis Wilson * The Times *
Mo Moulton shows [Dorothy L.] Sayers setting out in Gaudy Night, her most psychologically astute and least conventional novel, to present her own philosophy of women's intrinsic intellectual equality . . . Moulton's book sheds new light on Sayers's evolution as a writer, showing how some of her best work occurred in collaboration with her friend Muriel St. Clare Byrne * The New Yorker *
This lively, rigorous, and surprising history of Dorothy L. Sayers and her circle is a clear-eyed, optimistic look at a particularly critical stage in the evolution of feminism * Kristen Roupenian, author of Cat Person And Other Stories *
Deeply researched, beautifully written
-- Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever KnowThis is an extraordinary book . . . Beautifully written, animated by a sense of quiet power and amazing ambition, this is essential reading for anyone interested in modern British history -- Matt Houlbrook, author of Prince of Tricksters
Mo Moulton is an established author and commentator on twentieth-century British history, and currently a senior lecturer in the history department of the University of Birmingham. Their previous book was the runner-up for the Royal History Society's 2015 Whitfield Prize. They live in Derbyshire.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472154439 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472154436 |
| Title | Mutual Admiration Society |
| Author | Mo Moulton |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2019-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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