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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE ( / ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.
Jun 14, 2024 · Iris Murdoch (born July 15, 1919, Dublin, Ireland—died February 8, 1999, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a British novelist and philosopher noted for her psychological novels that contain philosophical and comic elements.
Mar 23, 2022 · Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy.
Nov 9, 2023 · Iris Murdoch was a productive writer of 26 novels and five works of philosophy. The critic Francis Wyndham pictured her ‘seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal’.
Jan 20, 2020 · Iris Murdoch was one of the greatest novelists of the late twentieth century, as well as a British philosopher. She always considered herself to be Anglo-Irish, although she’s very keen on her Irishness towards the end of her life.
Feb 8, 1999 · Irish-born British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text.
Jan 3, 2019 · Dame Iris Murdoch had been a philosophy don at Oxford before she became a novelist, and as far as I was concerned, her philosophy of life was spot on, as someone in a British novel...
Feb 8, 1999 · Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin and made her writing debut with Under the Net in 1954. She wrote 26 novels and several books of philosophy. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Dame Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919 to Anglo-lrish parents. She went to school in London and Bristol, before studying at Somerville College, Oxford, where she and later at Cambridge, as a student in Philosophy.
Jun 25, 2019 · People who met the British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) tended to want to describe her. She had big, round blue eyes, strawlike hair and a broad face with high cheekbones.
