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Actions	Letter from Iris Murdoch to Myles Burnyeat Remove from selection Add to selection TitleLetter from Iris Murdoch to Myles Burnyeat ReferenceKUAS224 Date Undated [c. late 1980s/ early 1990s] Creator Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, author Production date 1989-01-01 - 1995-12-31 Scope and ContentLetter from Iris Murdoch to philosophy scholar Myles Burnyeat, thanking him for sending off prints and praising his work. Murdoch is particularly pleased by items on Aristotle and Vlastos, and expresses the wish that she was a scholar. Undated [c. late 1980s/ early 1990s] Extent1 letter Archival historyKindly present by Myles Burnyeat Persons keyword Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, author, Myles Burnyeat, 1939-, scholar, 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle, philosopher and scientist, Gregory Vlastos, 1907-1991, philosopher SubjectCorrespondence, Philosophy Admin. history/BiographyIris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland on 15 Jul 1919. When she was very young Iris and her parents moved to London, where Iris attended the Froebel Institute in Roehampton and Badminton School in Bristol. She followed this with studies in classics, ancient history and philosophy at Oxford, and further study at Cambridge. During the Second World War Murdoch worked for HM Treasury in London and then joined the UNRRA, providing relief in formerly occupied countries in Europe. In 1948 she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught and researched philosophy. Iris Murdoch wrote a number of tracts on philosophy, however it is for her novels that she is best known. She wrote 26 novels in total, her first being 'Under the Net' published in 1954. Other notable works include 'The Bell' and 'The Sea, the Sea', for which she won the Booker Prize in 1978. Her final novel, 'Jackson's Dilemma', was published in 1995. Iris Murdoch had romantic relationships with a number of individuals. She met author and scholar John Bayley while at Oxford and they married in 1956. Later in life Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the first effects of which she had attributed to writer's block. Iris Murdoch died in 1999. Levelfonds

TitleLetter from Iris Murdoch to Myles Burnyeat

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Undated [c. late 1980s/ early 1990s]

Creator Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, author

Production date 1989-01-01 - 1995-12-31

Scope and ContentLetter from Iris Murdoch to philosophy scholar Myles Burnyeat, thanking him for sending off prints and praising his work. Murdoch is particularly pleased by items on Aristotle and Vlastos, and expresses the wish that she was a scholar. Undated [c. late 1980s/ early 1990s]

Extent1 letter

Archival historyKindly present by Myles Burnyeat

Persons keyword Iris Murdoch, 1919-1999, author, Myles Burnyeat, 1939-, scholar, 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle, philosopher and scientist, Gregory Vlastos, 1907-1991, philosopher

SubjectCorrespondence, Philosophy

Admin. history/BiographyIris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland on 15 Jul 1919. When she was very young Iris and her parents moved to London, where Iris attended the Froebel Institute in Roehampton and Badminton School in Bristol. She followed this with studies in classics, ancient history and philosophy at Oxford, and further study at Cambridge. During the Second World War Murdoch worked for HM Treasury in London and then joined the UNRRA, providing relief in formerly occupied countries in Europe. In 1948 she became a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where she taught and researched philosophy. Iris Murdoch wrote a number of tracts on philosophy, however it is for her novels that she is best known. She wrote 26 novels in total, her first being 'Under the Net' published in 1954. Other notable works include 'The Bell' and 'The Sea, the Sea', for which she won the Booker Prize in 1978. Her final novel, 'Jackson's Dilemma', was published in 1995. Iris Murdoch had romantic relationships with a number of individuals. She met author and scholar John Bayley while at Oxford and they married in 1956. Later in life Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, the first effects of which she had attributed to writer's block. Iris Murdoch died in 1999.

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