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Remembering Iris

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Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews

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“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, skillful teaching, warm personality; her many intellectual interests and tastes; her moral values.

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  1. Peter Conradi, Iris Murdoch: A Life (NY: Norton, 2001), p. 595.

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Meyers, J. (2013). Remembering Iris. In: Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347909_1

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