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On the Memoirs of A. N. Wilson and John Bayley
This chapter discusses the memoirs of Murdoch published after her death. The amusing and incisive Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her by A. N. Wilson describes her complex and contradictory character in detail. John Bayle...
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Letters
The letters from Murdoch to Meyers from 1978 to 1995 cover various topics, including classic writers like Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence and John Cowper Powys, and contemporaries like John Updike and Vikram Set...
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Remembering Iris
“Remembering Iris” sketches Iris Murdoch’s achievements, her life and loves, and long marriage to John Bayley. The author describes his meetings and interviews with Murdoch; her appearance, environment, skillfu.....
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Interviews
The Paris Review interview describes Murdoch and Bayley’s house in Oxford. Murdoch recalls her Irish family background and education, her wartime work in the civil service and with refugees in Europe; her politic...