Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer.

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'This title would be a useful addition to any university library supporting courses in contemporary fiction, women's writing and philosophy. The popular appeal of Murdoch's writing may also make this title of interest to public libraries.' - Linda Kemp, Reference Reviews

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VALERIE PURTON is a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. She is the author of A Coleridge Chronology (1993) and (with Christopher Sturman) of Poems by Two Brothers (1993). She has also edited Dickens's Dombey and Son (1996) and Landscape and Friendship (2000).

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Book Title: An Iris Murdoch Chronology
Authors: Valerie Purton
Series Title: Author Chronologies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597983
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4558-7Published: 06 November 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59798-3Published: 06 November 2007
Series ISSN: 2947-1265
Series E-ISSN: 2947-1273
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 256
Topics: Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (2 chapters)

Front Matter

An Iris Murdoch Chronology

Who’s Who

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