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Dame Iris Murdoch

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dame Iris Murdoch (Dame Jean Iris Murdoch) , 1919-99, British novelist and philosopher, b. Dublin, Ireland. In 1948 she was named lecturer in philosophy at Oxford, and in 1963 she was made an honorary fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. Murdoch's novels, subtle, witty, convoluted, puzzling, and often wildly comic, have elicited widely differing critical interpretations. Murdoch views human beings as "accidental" creatures, purportedly free but actually constricted by the boundaries of self, society, and the natural world. Although the plots of her novels are complex, involving innumerable... Read more
Murdoch, Dame Iris (Jean)
Murdoch, Dame Iris (Jean) (1919–99), novelist and philosopher, was born in Dublin of Anglo-Irish parents, and educated at Somerville College... Read more
Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch
...disease was chronicled by her husband, the critic John Bayley, in Elegy for Iris (1999). Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch Dame (Jean) Iris Murdoch Read more

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