Mutual Admiration Society

by Mo Moulton | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1472154452 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ReallyBookish of Furlong, Pennsylvania USA on 11/28/2022
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Journal Entry 1 by ReallyBookish from Furlong, Pennsylvania USA on Monday, November 28, 2022
Read in July of 2020

I’ve come to realize that I particularly enjoy nonfiction about the intellectual lives of twentieth century women. Examples of books that fit this category include Code Girls by Liza Mundy and Square Haunting by Francesca Wade. While this book didn’t quite live up to those two for me, it was still an excellent and fascinating read. The book centers on a group of Somerville College (Oxford) students beginning around 1912 and their lives and careers after graduation. The most famous of the women is author Dorothy Sayers, but the book also draws in-depth portraits of her compatriots Charis Barnett Frankenburg, Muriel St. Clare Byrne, and Dorothy Rowe, along with other women in their circle.

Journal Entry 2 by ReallyBookish at RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 28, 2022

Released 1 yr ago (11/29/2022 UTC) at RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Sending in a box of books. As always, no pressure to read the books before releasing. Do as you please with them! I thought the Dorothy Sayers connection of this one might interest you.

Journal Entry 3 by wingGoryDetailswing at Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Thursday, December 1, 2022
The box of RABCKs arrived safely on this blustery, cold day; many thanks! This one definitely sounds interesting. Should be a good companion piece to Square Haunting - and as I'd seen some of the society members' names in Sayers' dedication to Busman's Honeymoon (which I quoted in my JE on that copy), I look forward to learning more about those friendships!

Later: Enjoyable and often fascinating look at the lives of these disparate people who became long-time friends. The details of their younger lives, including their struggles to be recognized as equals at university and professionally, provided a view of the culture and politics of the time - and their intelligence and humor as well. (Also, cats!)

Released 8 mos ago (7/4/2023 UTC) at Little Free Library, Townsend St. in Pepperell, Massachusetts USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

I left this book in the Little Free Library on this rainy day; hope someone enjoys it!

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** Released for the 2023 Seeking Septads challenge. **

*** Released for the 2023 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover challenge. **

** Released for the 2023 Keep Them Moving challenge. **

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