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The Mutual Admiration Society

How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women

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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 Society offers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Sayers and her world.

©2019 Mo Moulton (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

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Anthony Award
2020
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In this extremely well researched book, Dr. Moulton illuminates the intellectual and emotional lives of of Dorothy L Sayers and her college classmates as they blazed new trails for women in 20th century Britain. Highly recommend!

Trailblazing women brought to life

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Seems like there was zero audio editing. The comments and pauses needed by the narrator are left in the recording. Poor quality control by Audible.

Terrible audio editing

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Altho book almost okay, editing was horrid. The disruptions were so annoying, I just could not continue to listen. Will look for a better book to read or listen to about Sayers. Why call Sayers DLS throughout the book?

Book okay, narration/editing horrid

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