The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women [Hardcover]

A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights

Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking Are Women Human? Women's rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers's lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human.

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 humanity. A celebration of feminism and female friendship,The Mutual Admiration Societyoffers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Sayers and her world.

Mo Moultonis currently a lecturer in the history department of the University of Birmingham. He earned his PhD in history from Brown University in 2010 and taught in the History & Literature program at Harvard University for six years. His previous book,Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, was named a 2014 "Book of the Year" byHistory Todayand was the runner-up for the Royal History Society's 2015 Whitfield Prize for first book in British or Irish history. Moulton regularly writes for outlets such asThe Atlantic,Public Books,Disclaimer Magazine, and theToast. He lives in London, UK.Winner of the Anthony Award for Best Critical Non-fiction Work“Pioneering.”Washington Post What touchingly emerges is the sense that through all the trials of heartbreak, bereavement and loss, it was friendship that persisted. It is a tribute to that precious but still unsung thing: the ll³©