They supported each other boldly and emphatically: no false modesty or feminine shame here. The name both captures the spirit of the group and misrepresents it. Let’s call ourselves the Mutual Admiration Society, she suggested, because that’s what people will call us anyway. Sayers, who would go on to be a famous detective novelist and popular theologian. The group was named by its best-known member, Dorothy L. In the firelight, over economical treats, they created a space in which they could grow beyond the limitations of Edwardian girlhood and become complex, creative adults with a radically capacious notion of what it might mean to be both human and female. One evening in November 1912, some new friends, all first-year students, gathered “to read aloud our literary efforts and to receive and deliver criticism.” They brought stories, poems, essays, plays, and fables, and they received far more than merely criticism. I T BEGAN IN A QUIET sort of way, over hot cocoa and toasted marshmallows in a student room at Somerville College, Oxford.
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