Amphilis Middlemore

Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore (1891–1931) founded the The Mutual Admiration Society (M.A.S.) at Somerville College, Oxford[1][2][3][4] with friend Dorothy L Sayers,[5][6][7] had some writing published, and was an English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, where she launched plays and acted in them.[8]

After Bryn Mawr she worked at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, teaching English from 1922 to 1928. She was born on 14 April, 1891.[9] Her distinctive first two names had become part of the family in the 15th century when a Richard and a Thomas Middlemore had both married into the Throckmorton family and a John Middlemore had married Amphillis Goodwin. [10] She died on July 18, 1931, as reported by the college's newspaper, The Swarthmore Phoenix.[11] She was daughter of MP Sir John Middlemore, niece of Thomas Middlemore, and cousin of artist Emily Parker Groom.

References
  1. Leavis, Q.D. (1937). "The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers Prescott, Barbara Dorothy L. Sayers & the Mutual Admiration Society: Friendship and Creative Writing in an Oxford Women's Literary Group. INKLINGS FOREVER, Vol. 10. Proceedings of the 2016 Frances W. Eubank Colloquium on Lewis & Friends. (Winged Lion Press, 2017)". Scrutiny. VI.
  2. Fletcher, Christine M. (2014-03-27). The Artist and the Trinity: Dorothy L. Sayers' Theology of Work. ISD LLC. ISBN 978-0-7188-4219-2.
  3. Adams, Pauline (1996). Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920179-2.
  4. "THE MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY: HOW DOROTHY L. SAYERS AND HER OXFORD CIRCLE REMADE THE WORLD FOR WOMEN - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 2021-01-25.
  5. Prescott, Barbara. "A Mutual Admiration" – via www.academia.edu.
  6. Hone, Ralph E. (1979). Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-228-1.
  7. Dale, Alzina Stone (1992). Maker & Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. H. Shaw Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87788-523-8.
  8. "College News, 1922-03-22, Vol. 08, No. 18 :: Bryn Mawr College News". triptych.brynmawr.edu.
  9. Phillimore, W. P. W. (1901). Some Account of the Family of Middlemore of Warwickshire and Worcestershire. London: Phillimore and Co. p. 236.
  10. Phillimore, W. P. W. (1901). Some Account of the Family of Middlemore of Warwickshire and Worcestershire. London: Phillimore and Co. p. 255.
  11. Moulton, Mo (2019-11-07). Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-4721-5442-2.
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