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Ackroyd, Peter, 64 Callil, Carmen, 19, 45, 79 Allen, Woody, 55 Campbell, Michael, 33–34 Alvarez, Al, 47 Canetti, Elias, 4, 5, 6–7, 15, 19, Amis, Kingsley, 106 115, 117, 118 Lucky Jim, 64–65 Carey, John, 16 Atlas, James, 48n1 Cecil, Lord David, 34 Ayer, A. J., 2, 72 Chatto and Windus, 11, 19, 42–43, 77, 79 Bassano, Jacopo, 59 Colville, Alex, 12, 119 Bayley, John, 16, 22, 38, 46, 68, Conrad, Joseph, 58, 61 71, 75, 78, 99 Lord Jim, 57, 60 character, 9, 14 Conradi, Peter, 2, 5, 25, 43, 52, letters from, 2, 21, 33, 35, 84, 114, 119 83–84 marriage, 3, 7–8, 17–18, 24, De Jonge, Alex, 12, 51, 52 teaching, 9–10, 51, 73, 80–81, Denver Quarterly, 24, 69, 82–83 101–109 The Characters of Love, 118 Dipple, Elizabeth, 19 Elegy for Iris, 26, 84, 114, Donoghue, Denis, 67 117–120 The Short Story, 37, 48 Eagleton, Terry, 65, 66 The Widower’s House, 116, Eckhart, Meister, 41 120 Enright, D. J., 11 Beckett, Samuel, Murphy, 118 Beckmann, Max, 14, 34, 98 Fairey, Wendy, 72 Berlin, Isaiah, 76, 78 Fisher, M. S., 48, 49 Bowen, Elizabeth, 18 Foot, Philippa, 4 Bowra, Maurice, 48, 49n2 Fraenkel, Eduard, 5, 12, 103, Bradbury, Malcolm, 2, 12, 81 115, 117 Brenan, Gerald, 38 Fuentes, Carlos, 59 Bronzino, Agnolo, 98 Brookner, Anita, 46 Gandhi, Indira, 41 Brophy, Brigid, 24 Gide, André, 30–31 Byatt, A. S., 13, 80, 99, 106 Glendinning, Victoria, 44

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Gordimer, Nadine, 70 Meyers, Rachel, 13, 32, 37, 62, 64, 77, 81 Greene, Graham, 39 Meyers, Valerie, 36, 61 Mo, Timothy, 34, 46 Hart, Josephine, 13, 76 Momigliano, Arnaldo, 4, 5, 103, 117, 119 Heidegger, Martin, 115 Munch, Edvard, 14, 60 Hill, Christopher, 31 Murdoch, Iris Holroyd, Michael, 42–43 Life: appearance, 3, 9, 21, 25, 119 Iris (film), 2, 84 character, 4–6, 11, 55n1, 114, 118 civil servant, 3, 88–89, 103–104, 110 Joyce, James, “The Dead,” 13, 43 Communist party, 3, 20, 89, 103 Daily Mail “interview”, 57 Kermode, Frank, 16 death, 26 King, Francis, 12, 53, 80, 84 education, 2–4, 102–103 Kopff, Christian, 51–52 family background, 2, 7, 18, 29n2, 63, Kreisel, Georg, 77–78 88, 101–102, 110, 116 Kundera, Milan, The Unbearable friendships, 12, 51, 80, 106 Lightness of Being, 53, 99 homes: Charlbury Rd, 24 Lawrence, D. H., 47, 48, 49, 61, 95, 100, Hamilton Rd, 23, 24, 36, 88, 111, 118 110–111 Kangaroo, 57 Steeple Aston, 3,17, 24–25, 106 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 58, 59n2 honors, 2, 20, 35, 76, 78 Lawrence, T. E., 5, 40, 50, 61 ideas: Laxness, Halldór, 54 children, 7–8, 99, 114–115, 119 Le Carré, John, 59, 60 Ireland, 18, 73–74, 75, 81, 107–108, Luini, Bernardino, 14, 61 111 politics, 3, 13–14, 20, 76, 110 Mailer, Norman, 71 religion, 11, 54, 76–77, 96–97, Malak, Amin, 39 108–109, 116, 119 Mann, Thomas, 16, 19, 94 reviews, 11 The Magic Mountain, 43 structuralism, 16, 43 Manning, Olivia, 31 women’s studies, 46 Mansfield, Katherine, 30 illness, 8, 25, 83, 117, 119–120 Martin, Robert Bernard, 49 interests: McCarthy, Mary, 76 art, 14–15, 118–119 McDiarmid, Ian, 56 swimming, 13, 14, 24, 49, 69, 79, Meyers, Jeffrey, background, 8 80, 81 dedication of Hemingway, 33, 35 lovers, 4–7, 117–118, 119 friendship with IM, 11–13 marriage, 3, 7–8, 81, 118 interviews, 22–24, 50–51, 53, 54, 69, reading, 13, 16, 19, 53, 64, 80, 95–96, 88–109 99, 101 meetings, 15–18, 20–21, 24 Conrad, 57, 58, 60 projected Portable Murdoch, 74 Powys, 68, 100 Orwell, 84 teaching, 3, 9–10, 14, 105 Privileged Moments, 84 travels, 40, 61, 70, 71, 76

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Italy, 42, 59, 68–69 Poetry: Japan, 77, 78 A Year of Birds, 74n2 Spain, 62, 73 characters, 15, 32, 44, 45n3, visits: 55, 77, 92–95, 107, 111–112, Berkeley, 12, 33, 36–37 115 Boulder, 10–11 influences, 93, 99, 111, 115, 118 China, 16–17 methods, 15, 19, 22–23, 90–93, work with refugees, 3, 39, 89, 99, 107 104–105 themes: Work: art, 14–15, 98, 118 Fiction: morality, 95–97, 112 The Bell, 14, 107 philosophy, 93–95, 115 The Black Prince, 2, 15 story, 100–101, 112 The Book and the Brotherhood, Murry, John Middleton, 30 39–40, 45, 52, 107 A Fairly Honourable Defeat, 8, Naipaul, V. S., 53n1, 58, 59, 73 78n4 The Flight from the Enchanter, 6 Paris Review, 22, 23–24, 42, 50–51, The Green Knight, 75, 77 52–53, 54, 62, 63 Henry and Cato, 14, 35n1, 98 “Iris Murdoch,” 88–101 The Italian Girl, 48 deleted passages: 110–112 Jackson’s Dilemma, 15, 82n3, 115, Piero della Francesca, Resurrection, 119 118–119 The Message to the Planet, Powers, J. F., 31 55, 60 Powys, John Cowper, 13, 62, 68, 100 The Nice and the Good, 98, 107 Priestley, J. B., 98 Nuns and Soldiers, 14, 31, 106 The Philosopher’s Pupil, 18, 32 Rushdie, Salman, 54 The Red and the Green, 108 Russell, Bertrand, 18–19 The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, 2, 44, 98 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 3, 97 The Sea, The Sea, 2, 14 Searle, John, 19 A Severed Head, 98 Seth, Vikram, 41, 46, 106 Under the Net, 107, 118 Shaw, George Bernard, 43 A Word Child, 107 Sinclair-Stevenson, Christopher, 59 “Something Special,” 37 Smallwood, Norah, 17 Philosophy: Smith, Reggie, 31 Existentialists and Mystics, 15 Somerville College, 71–72 Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Steiner, Franz, 4, 5–6, 57, 117–118 19, 73, 75, 115 Suyin, Han, 41 Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, 48 Plays: Thompson, Frank, 4–5, 57, 118, 119 The Black Prince, 56, 98 Titian, The Flaying of Marsyas, The Servants and the Snow, 14–15, 99, 118 109 Todd, Richard, 47 The Three Arrows, 109 Todorov, Tzvetan, 47

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Tracy, Honor, 38, 116 projected biography, 25, 62, 64, 65, 75, 115–116 Updike, John, 41 Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her, Urquhart, Brian, 55–56 114–117 Wilson, Edmund, 76 Victor, Ed, 48, 49n3, 57, 77 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 3, 12, 19 Villers, Audi, 116 Wollheim, Richard, 36 Woolf, Leonard, 60 West, Rebecca, 44, 45 Wilson, A. N., 2, 7, 40, 66–67, 80, 106 Zola, Emile, 68

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