Join us in welcoming Mo Moulton, author of Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women to The Second Shelf. Mo will be joining The Second Shelf’s Managing Editor Lucy Scholes in a discussion about the book. This will be followed by a short audience Q&A.

Mutual Admiration Society is a fascinating group biography of the renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights. In 1912, Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, calling themselves the ‘Mutual Admiration Society’. These women remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they battled for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their humanity. Despite the casual cruelty of sexism that limited women’s choices, they pushed boundaries in reproductive rights, sexual identity, queer family making, and representations of women in the arts.

Mo Moulton is an author and commentator on twentieth-century British history and is currently a senior lecturer in the history department at 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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