Amphilis Throckmorton Middlemore
Born(1891-04-14)14 April 1891[1]
Selly Oak, Birmingham England
Died18 July 1931(1931-07-18) (aged 40)
EducationSomerville College, Oxford

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.

References

  1. ^ Phillimore, W. P. W. (1901). Some Account of the Family of Middlemore of Warwickshire and Worcestershire. London: Phillimore and Co. p. 236.
  2. ^ Prescott, Barbara (January 2019). "A Mutual Admiration". DLS, American Journal of Sayers Studies – via www.academia.edu.
  3. ^ Hone, Ralph E. (1979). Dorothy L. Sayers: A Literary Biography. Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-228-1.
  4. ^ Dale, Alzina Stone (1992). Maker & Craftsman: The Story of Dorothy L. Sayers. H. Shaw Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87788-523-8.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Fletcher, Christine M. (27 March 2014). The Artist and the Trinity: Dorothy L. Sayers' Theology of Work. ISD LLC. ISBN 978-0-7188-4219-2.
  7. ^ Adams, Pauline (1996). Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-920179-2.
  8. ^ Prescott, Barbara (2020). "The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton". Mythlore. 38 (2): 163–188. Gale A639544050 ProQuest 2399148000.
  9. ^ "College News, 1922-03-22, Vol. 08, No. 18 :: Bryn Mawr College News". triptych.brynmawr.edu.
  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 (7 November 2019). 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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