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  1. Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband ...
  2. rsliterature.org

    From the publication of Under the Net in 1954 until she was overtaken by Alzheimer's in the mid 1990s, the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote prolifically, establishing herself as one of the great British fiction writers of the twentieth century. Her novels, which include The Bell, The Black Prince (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and The Sea, The Sea(winner of the ...
  3. thecollector.com

    Dec 2, 2023A plaque commemorating Iris Murdoch, photo by David Kernan, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons. Under the Net was Murdoch's first novel. It concerns a writer's fruitless attempts to, at various points, secure a stable living, make something of himself as a writer, rekindle a friendship stupidly tossed away, rekindle a romance stupidly tossed away ...
  4. link.springer.com

    This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series. Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who expand the boundaries of recent criticism offering work not only on the novels, but on her unpublished ...
  5. bookseriesinorder.com

    Iris Murdoch is an Irish and British published author. She also went by Dame Jean Iris Murdoch. She was a novelist, philosopher, and lecturer. Murdoch was born July 15, 1919 in Dublin, Ireland. She was the daughter to Irene Alice and Wills John Hughes Murdoch. Her father came from a family that farmed sheep and worked as a civil servant.
  6. literaryladiesguide.com

    Iris Murdoch: As I Knew Her by A.N. Wilson (2003) Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley (2012) Iris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration by Miles Leeson (2017) More information and sources. Wikipedia; Reader discussion of Iris Murdoch's works on Goodreads; 1990 interview in The Paris Review; Iris Murdoch at 100 in The Guardian
  7. en.wikipedia.org

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels ...
  8. theparisreview.org

    Iris Murdoch has received many honors. In addition to the Booker Prize, she has won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Black Prince and the Whitbread Literary Award for Fiction for The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and is an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ...
  9. encyclopedia.com

    Iris MurdochBORN: 1919, Dublin, IrelandDIED: 1999, Oxford, EnglandNATIONALITY: IrishGENRE: Novels, essays, poems, playsMAJOR WORKS:Under the Net (1954)The Sandcastle (1957)A Severed Head (1961)The Black Prince (1973)The Sea, the Sea (1978) Source for information on Murdoch, Iris: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature dictionary.

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