Iris Murdoch
At a glance:
- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers, Novelists, Short Story Writers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, British History
Article abstract: Schooled in philosophy, Murdoch wrote more than twenty-five novels, many of them essentially philosophical, as well as several volumes that were overtly about philosophy.
Early Life
Iris Murdoch, born Jean Iris Murdoch in Dublin, Ireland, in 1919, was the only child of John Wills Hughes Murdoch, a British civil service employee, and his wife, Irene Alice Richardson Murdoch, who abandoned her hopes of being an opera singer to marry at the age of eighteen. Although the family resettled in England during Iris’s first year and she grew up...
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