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In Episode 29, Babes Jenn and Lyndsay sit down with Susan Rice and Mickey Fromkin to talk about The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes and how ASH came to be.

Who are The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes you may ask?

Founded by a group of women students at Albertus Magnus College in the late 1960s and led by Principal Unprincipled Adventuress Evelyn Herzog, ASH achieved early notoriety when its members picketed the Annual Dinner of the Baker Street Irregulars in protest of the BSI policy of excluding women. For the next 25 years ASH thrived with its own (coeducational) dinner on the same January night as the BSI event.  When women were finally invited into the BSI in 1991, selected Adventuresses were among the first to be invested.

Both Susan and Mickey not only share the story of ASH, but also their own personal stories of how they became members and found other like-minded women who share their love for our favorite consulting detective.

For more information on The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes you can visit their website or you can email Susan Rice at susan221bee@gmail.com.  

You can also subscribe to the ASH publication, The Serpentine Muse.  

The Muse is a quarterly journal of ASH activities and (mostly) light-hearted Sherlockian and Victorian topics. Contents include event reports, short articles, toasts, contests, poetry, drawings, and photos of, and by, ASH members and others. It is not necessary to be a member of ASH to subscribe or contribute material for publication in The Muse. 

For more information on The Serpentine Muse, click here.

For more information on The Baker Street Irregulars, check out this our own Lyndsay Faye’s fabulous article, this article and the BSI Trust website.