The Authors Cricket Club: A Literary and Cultural History of the Gatekeepers of Englishness amid the Decline of Empire (1895-1968)

作家板球俱乐部是由亚瑟柯南道尔和J. M。巴里是生活在伦敦的作家之间英国性和同志情谊的一种表达。事实上，两人都是苏格兰人，但俱乐部的球员们所写的并试图重现的田园牧歌般的英格兰却没有被整洁的现实所掩盖。作家CC成为其成员的有力象征，在俱乐部成立的七十年里，他们包括一系列重要的文化人物。它作为英国人的象征的重要性，以及它在激发作家定义英国人方面的文化影响，以前从未被研究过。

The Authors Cricket Club was founded by Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie as a statement ofEnglishness and camaraderie among writers living in London. Both were in fact Scottish, butuntidy reality was kept out of the pastoral, idyllic England that the club's players wrote about andsought to recreate. The Authors CC became a potent symbol for its members, who included aremarkable array of important cultural figures in the club's seven decades of existence. Itsimportance as a symbol of Englishness, and its cultural impact in inspiring writers to define thatEnglishness, has never before been studied.