Title: An Iris Murdoch chronology
First published: 2007
Description: Iris Murdoch was one of the best loved and most respected British writers of the second half of the twentieth century. A novelist and philosopher, she could uniquely appeal to both an academic and a popular audience. Her wild emotional life, her many love-affairs, her war work with UNRRA, her move from youthful communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint beloved for her gentle spirituality, her sad decline from Alzheimer's disease - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronology, which charts the passage of a remarkable life and provides fresh insight into Murdoch's novels.
Subjects: Chronology, English Novelists, Novelists, English, Murdoch, iris, 1919-1999, Women and literature, Didactic fiction, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, English, Literary studies: from c 1900, Literature
People: Iris Murdoch
Time periods: 20th century