 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Friction, or just fiction, between Bayley's sheets.
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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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March 19, 2001| Author:
Leitch, Luke
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Byline: LUKE LEITCH
JOHN BAYLEY, who was married to author Dame Iris Murdoch for 43 years, is embroiled in controversy over his account of sexual liaisons with two women whose identities he will not reveal - with one newspaper alleging they never existed.
In Widower's House, an account of his life since Dame Iris's death in 1999, Professor Bayley, 75, describes being chased by two women - a widow, "Margot", and an undergraduate, "Mella". When this section was...
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; ... those concerned." Yesterday, however, The Sunday Times asserted that not only were the names of the two women fictional but the women were figments of Professor Bayley's imagination, claiming that he said: "The women are both imaginary.. . . I had no lovers. Just daydreams." Today, though, Bayley ...
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