The Mutual Admiration Society

The Mutual Admiration Society (MAS) was a literary society (or literary circle) of women who became friends at Somerville College, Oxford.[1][2] Its members included Dorothy L. Sayers,[3][4] Muriel St Clare Byrne, Charis Frankenburg, Dorothy Rowe, and Amphilis Middlemore, among others.[5][2]

Somerville College Library with hyacinths
Somerville College Oxford Coat Of Arms (Motto)

The society of the title was a real club. The members composed poetry and prose for each other's pleasure. Apart from Sayers, none of them were a household name, though all were notable. Mo Moulton argued in their Agatha Award-winning book, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women,[6] that each one lived a life worthy of attention.[7][8][9][10]

Years later, the writer Vera Brittain — a Somerville contemporary of the group, but not one of its members — recalled that the MAS “took themselves very seriously”.[11][12]

References
  1. Fletcher, Christine M. (2014-03-27). The Artist and the Trinity: Dorothy L. Sayers' Theology of Work. ISD LLC. ISBN 978-0-7188-4219-2.
  2. Adams, Pauline (1996). Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920179-2.
  3. Dale, Alzina Stone (1992). Maker & Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. H. Shaw Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87788-523-8.
  4. Hone, Ralph E. (1979). Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-228-1.
  5. The History of the University of Oxford: pt.2. Nineteenth-century Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-19-951017-7.
  6. Moulton, Mo (2019). Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 9781541644472.
  7. Laura Freeman (8 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review — Oxford beware: brainy girls". The Times. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  8. Anna Mundow (25 October 2019). "'The Mutual Admiration Society' Review: The Case of the Lifelong Friends". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  9. Moulton, Mo (2019-11-07). Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-4721-5442-2.
  10. "THE MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY: HOW DOROTHY L. SAYERS AND HER OXFORD CIRCLE REMADE THE WORLD FOR WOMEN - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  11. Charlotte Higgins (21 November 2019). "Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton review – the pioneering club of Dorothy L Sayers". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  12. "Mutual Admiration Society — Dorothy L Sayers and her rule-breaking friends". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
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