An Iris Murdoch chronology

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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

Times: 20th century