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Article: Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch
The works of the novelist and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch (born 1919) portray characters whose warped and often dreamlike perceptions of reality create suffering among those whose lives they attempt to dominate.
Jean Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 15, 1919. In 1942, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honors in the Classical Greats from Oxford University in England. From 1942 to 1944, she worked as assistant principal in the British treasury and from 1944 to 1946, with the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Center. In 1947, she returned to her education and obtained a studentship in Philosophy at Cambridge University, also in England. ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Murdoch, (Jean) Iris
The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;
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...Murdoch, [Jean] Iris (1919–1999), philosopher and novelist. Born in Dublin, of Anglo ... 1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992).See Peter J. Conradi , Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist (1986).
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