In 1912, six young women at Oxford founded the Mutual Admiration Society, a writing group that changed their lives and forged a path for generations of ambitious women to come. Tracing the history of these artistic and social modernists, here Mo Moulton profiles mystery novelist Dorothy L. Sayers; Muriel St. Clare Byrne, a Tudor expert with a revolving door of lady loves; Charis (Barnett) Frankenburg, one of the first female Justices of the Peace; theatre director Dorothy Rowe; and Muriel "Jim" Jaeger, science fiction writer.