Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore Explained
Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore (14 April 1891 – 18 July 1931) was a British writer and teacher.
With her friend Dorothy L. Sayers,[2] [3] [4] she founded The Mutual Admiration Society at Somerville College, Oxford,[5] [6] [7] [8] had some writing published, and was an English teacher at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, where she launched plays and acted in them.[9]
After Bryn Mawr she worked at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, teaching English from 1922 to 1928.
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 18 July 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.
Notes and References
- Book: Phillimore, W. P. W. . Some Account of the Family of Middlemore of Warwickshire and Worcestershire . London . Phillimore and Co . 1901 . 236.
- A Mutual Admiration. Barbara. Prescott. DLS, American Journal of Sayers Studies . January 2019 . www.academia.edu.
- Book: Hone, Ralph E.. Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography. 1979. Kent State University Press. 978-0-87338-228-1. en.
- Book: Dale, Alzina Stone. Maker & Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. 1992. H. Shaw Publishers. 978-0-87788-523-8. en.
- Leavis. Q.D.. Q. D. Leavis. 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.
- Book: Fletcher, Christine M.. The Artist and the Trinity: Dorothy L. Sayers' Theology of Work. 2014-03-27. ISD LLC. 978-0-7188-4219-2. en.
- Book: Adams, Pauline. Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. 1996. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-920179-2. en.
- Prescott . Barbara . The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton . Mythlore . 2020 . 38 . 2 . 163–188 . .
- Web site: College News, 1922-03-22, Vol. 08, No. 18 :: Bryn Mawr College News. triptych.brynmawr.edu.
- Book: Phillimore, W. P. W. . Some Account of the Family of Middlemore of Warwickshire and Worcestershire . London . Phillimore and Co . 1901 . 255.
- Book: Moulton, Mo. Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women. 2019-11-07. Little, Brown Book Group. 978-1-4721-5442-2. en.
