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Shedunnit

The Mutual Admiration Society

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other. From that meeting, we got Peter Wimsey, Harriet Vane, and so much more besides. Find links to all the books and sources mentioned at shedunnitshow.com/mas. Special thanks today to my guest Mo Moulton, you can follow them on Twitter @hammock_tussock and order their book The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers And Her Oxford Circle Remade The World For Women at Amazon, Waterstones, Hive or your local independent bookshop. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/bookclub. Books and sources: —Mutual Admiration Society by Mo Moulton —Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Live and Soul by Barbara Reynolds —Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers —Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers —Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers —Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/mastranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Pluto TV. One chilly night in November 1912, a group of young women gathered together to share their writing with each other.

0:45.0

They were all newly arrived first-year students at Somerville College in Oxford,

0:49.0

part of a cohort of women undergraduates who were still pushing for full equality at the university and in the world at large.

0:57.0

Years would a lapse between them finishing their studies and actually receiving their degrees for instance because at this time Oxford

1:04.8

allowed women to take the examinations but not to formally graduate.

1:10.3

The The group was founded as a writing circle, a place for budding poets,

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