Bibliography Biographical Material Bayley, John Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (Duckworth, 1998) ——— Iris and the Friends (Duckworth, 1999) Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch: A Life (HarperCollins, 2001) Dooley, Gillian From a Tiny Corner of the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch (University of Carolina Press, 2003) Fletcher, John and Cheryl Bove Iris Murdoch: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (London and New York: Garland, 1994; new edition forthcoming) Healey, Denis Time of My Life (Michael Joseph, 1989) Jenkins, Roy A Life at the Centre (London, 1992) Partridge, Frances Other People: Diaries 1963–66 (London, 1993) ——— Good Company: Diaries 1967–70 (London, 1994) ——— Hanging On: Diaries 1960–63 (London, 1998) Scruton, Roger. Gentle Regrets (London, 2005) Spender, Stephen. Journals 1939–1983 (Faber, 1985) Todd, Richard. Encounters With Iris Murdoch (Raedarius Books, Amsterdam, 1988) Warnock, Mary. A Memoir: People and Places (London, 2000) Wilson, A.N. Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her (Hutchinson, 2003) Locations of Selected Primary Material IM’s Journal of her trip to India (Kingston University Archive) IM’s Library (Kingston University Archive) Peter Conradi research material including John Bayley’s Diary Synopsis and Summary of British Council trips (1960s – 1990s), letters from IM to Lucy Klatschko (Sister Marian) and to Lilian Eldridge, Minutes of the Oxford University Labour Club Executive Committee 1940–41 (Kingston University Archive) Letters of IM to Roly Cochrane and to Suguna Ramanathan (Kingston University Archive) Letters of IM to David Hicks, Stella Aldwinckle, Isaiah Berlin, R.B. Martin, Toby Milsom, Rachel Trickett; UNRRA material (Bodleian Library, Oxford) (See Appendix). Letters from IM to Michael Oakeshott (London School of Economics) Letters of IM to Richard Wollheim (UCL Library Services, Special Collections) Letters of IM to Norah Smallwood (Brotherton Library, University of Leeds) Letter from IM to Philip Larkin (University of Hull) Chatto and Windus Archive, including letters from IM, and from Norah Smallwood, Carmen Callil and others to and about IM (University of Reading Special Collections at M.E.R.L.) 238 Bibliography 239 A Selection of Articles and Reviews by Iris Murdoch ‘Midnight Hour’, Adelphi, January–March 1943, 60–1. Reviews of The Rebirth of Christianity and Taken at the Flood, Adelphi, July–September 1943, 134–5. ‘Worship and Common Life’, Adelphi, July-September 1944, 134–5. ‘The Novelist as Metaphysician’, Listener, XLIII (16 March 1950), 473–6. ‘The Existentialist Hero’, Listener, 23 March 1950, 523–4. Review of Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Emotions: Outline of a Theory, in Mind, LIX (1950), 268–71. Review of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity, in Mind, LIX (1950), 127–8. ‘Thinking and Language’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, xxv (1951), 25–34. ‘The Image of Mind’ (review of Gabriel Marcel’s The Mystery of Being), University: A Journal of Enquiry, 1.3 (Summer 1951), 130–5. ‘The Existentialist Political Myth’, Socratic Digest, v (1952), 52–63. ‘Nostalgia for the Particular’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, LII (1952), 243–60. ‘Philosophy and Beliefs’ in Twentieth Century, June 1955, 495–521. ‘Knowing the Void’, Spectator, CXCVII (2 November 1956), 613–14 ‘Let Them Philosophise’ (review of S.T. Coleridge’s Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit), Spectator, 14 December 1956, 873. ‘Vision and Choice in Morality’, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, xxx (1956), 32–58. ‘Important Things’ (review of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins), The Sunday Times, 17 February 1957. ‘Hegel in Modern Dress’ (review of Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre), New Statesman, LIII (25 May 1957), 675–6. ‘Existentialist Bite’ (review of E. Knight’s Literature Considered as Philosophy: The French Example), Spectator, 12 July 1957, 68–9. ‘Concepts or Blood’ (review of Colin Wilson’s Religion and the Rebel), Manchester Guardian (25 October 1957), 6. ‘Metaphysics and Ethics’ in D.F. Pears (ed.), The Nature of Metaphysics (London, 1957), 99–123. ‘A Woman Don’s Delight’ in The Compleat Imbiber: An Entertainment, ed. Cyril Ray (London, 1958), 193–6. ‘T.S. Eliot as a Moralist’, in Neville Braybrooke (ed.), T.S. Eliot: A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday (London, 1958). ‘A House of Theory’ in Norman Mackenzie (ed.) Conviction (London, 1958), pp. 158–62. Review of Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago in The New Reasoner: A Quarterly Journal of Socialist Humanism 7 (Winter 1958–9), 140–2. ‘Simone, Antoine and Anne’ (review of Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter), The Sunday Times, 17 May 1959. ‘The Sublime and the Good’, Chicago Review, xiii (Autumn 1959), 42–55. ‘Mr Gellner’s Game’ (review of Ernest Gellner’s Words and Things), Observer, 29 November 1959. 240 Bibliography ‘The Sublime and the Beautiful Revisited’, Yale Review, XLIX (Winter 1959), 247–71. ‘Negative Capability’, Adam International Review 284–6 (1960), 172–3. ‘Against Dryness’, Encounter, xvi (January 1961), 16–20. ‘Morality and the Bomb’ in Women Ask Why: An Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Nuclear Disarmament (London 1962), 1–6. ‘Mass, Might and Myth’ (review of Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power), Spectator, ccix (7 September 1962), 337–8. ‘Freedom and Knowledge’ in D.F. Pears (ed.) Freedom and the Will (London, 1963), 80–104. ‘A Jewelled Occasion’ (review of Brigid Brophy’s The Snowball), The Sunday Times, 19 January 1964. ‘The Idea of Perfection’, Yale Review 53.3 (Spring 1964), 342–80. ‘The Moral Decision about Homosexuality’, Man and Society, vii (Summer 1964), 3–6. ‘The Darkness of Practical Reason’ (review of S. Hampshire, Freedom of the Individual), Encounter, xxvii (July 1966), 46–50. ‘Political Morality’, Listener, 21 September 1967, 353–4. ‘A Note on Drama’, Cue: the Greenwich Theatre Magazine, September 1970, 13–14. ‘Existentialists and Mystics: A Note on the Novel in the New Utilitarian Age’ in W. Robson (ed.) Essays and Poems Presented to Lord David Cecil (London, 1970) 169–83. ‘Salvation by Words’, New York Review of Books, 15 June 1972, 4. ‘Premium Books: Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good’, in New Fiction Society, no. 1 (October 1974), 8. Contribution to Bookmarks ed. F. Raphael (London, 1975), p.125. ‘Socialism and Selection’ in C.B. Cox and Rhodes Boyson (eds) Black Paper 3 on Education (London 1975), pp.7–9. ‘Epistolary Dialogues’, Soviet Literature (1977, pt.2) 48–61, with Valentina Ivasheva. ‘Force Fields’ (review of A.S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden), New Statesman, 3 November 1978, 586. ‘Art is the Imitation of Nature’, Cahiers de Recherches sur les Pays du Nord et du Nord-Ouest, No.1, Publications de la Faculte de Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l’Université de Caen, 1978. ‘Reynolds Stone: An Address, 20 July 1979’ (Warren Editions, 1981). ‘What I See in Cinema’, Vogue Bedside Book, II (London, 1986), 186–7. Introduction to the Catalogue of the Harry Weinberger Exhibition, the Donald Campbell Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kensington (1994). ‘Who is the Experiencer?’ in Questioning Krishnamurti (London, 1996), 99–128. Occasional Essays by Iris Murdoch (ed. Yozo Muroya and Paul Hullah, Okayama, 1998). A Selection of Interviews with Iris Murdoch 1950s ‘Meeting Writers’ no.5, BBC European Productions, 4 February 1957 ‘Mainly About Authors’, Bookman, 26 November 1958 ‘Portrait Gallery’, Sunday Times, 17 May 1959, p.5 Bibliography 241 1960s Dilys Rowe, ‘Sympathetic Fellow’, Guardian, 1 February 1960, p.6 Lorenzo Gomis, Bengt Holmquist and Michel Duguy (eds), Perspecktiv 8.2 (Bagsvaerd, Denmark), 1960, pp.13–18 John Barrows, ‘Living Writers’ 7, John O’London’s, 4 May 1961, p.495 Ved Mehta, ‘Onward and Upward with the Arts’, New Yorker, 9 December 1961, p.59 Harold Hobson, ‘Lunch with Iris Murdoch’, Sunday Times, 11 March 1962, p.28 ‘Portret van Iris Murdoch’, Elseviers Weekblad, Amsterdam, 23 June 1962 Frank Kermode, ‘Myth, Reality and Fiction’, Listener, 30 August 1962, p.311 Interview with Iris Murdoch, Elizabethan, June 1963, pp.17–19 Frank Kermode, ‘Interviews with Seven English Novelists’, Partisan Review, xxx, 1963, pp.61–82 Ruth Heyd, ‘An Interview with Iris Murdoch’, University of Windsor Review, Spring 1965, pp.138–43 John Wilkins, ‘ Iris Murdoch on Christ and Myth’, Frontier 8.3, Autumn 1965, pp.219–21 Stephanie Nettell, ‘An Exclusive Interview’, Books and Bookmen, September 1966, pp.14, 15, 66 David McGill, ‘Talking with a Traditionalist’, New Zealand Listener, 28 April 1967, p.7 Peter Lewis, ‘Crying Blue Murdoch’, Daily Mail, 30 January 1968 Laura Cecil, ‘How to Write a Novel,’ Cover No. 4, March 1968, pp. 9–10 Ronald Bryden and A.S. Byatt, ‘Talking to Iris Murdoch’, Listener, 4 April 1968, pp.433–4 W.K. Rose, ‘An Interview with Iris Murdoch’, Shenandoah, xix, winter 1968, pp.3–22 M. Jarrett-Kerr, ‘Good, Evil and Morality’, CR: Quarterly Review of the Community of the Resurrection, No.266, Michaelmas 1969, pp.17–23 1970s Ronald Hayman, ‘Out of the Tutorial’, The Times, 30 September 1970, p.13 Jane Taylor, ‘Iris Murdoch talks to Jane Taylor’, Books and Bookmen, April 1971, pp.26–7 A.S. Byatt, ‘Now Read On’, BBC Radio 4, 27 October 1971 David Pears, ‘The Idea of Freedom’, LogicLane/Oxford Philosophy Series, Chanan Films 1971 Hugh Hebert, ‘The Iris Problem’, Guardian, 24 October 1972, p.10 Gill Davie, ‘I Should Hate to be Alive and not Writing a Novel: Iris Murdoch on her Work’, Woman’s Journal, October 1975, pp.64–5 Malcolm Bradbury, ‘Iris Murdoch in conversation,’ British Council tape no.RI, 2001, 27 February 1976, pp.24–5 Simon Blow, ‘An Interview with Iris Murdoch’, Spectator, 25 September 1976 Malcolm Bradbury and Lorna Sage, University of East Anglia Interview, A/V Centre University of East Anglia, October 1976 Sheila Hale and A.S. Byatt, ‘Women Writers Now: Their Approach and Apprenticeship’ Harpers and Queen, October 1976, 178–91 Stephen Glover, ‘Iris Murdoch talks to Stephen Glover, The New Review, iii, November 1976, pp.56–9 242 Bibliography Paul Vaughan, interview on Henry and Cato, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 2 December 1976 Gill Davie and Leigh Crutchley, ‘Publishers’ Weekly interviews Iris Murdoch’, Publishers Weekly, 13 December 1976, pp.16–17.