The award to IM
of a scholarship to Badminton School
on the outskirts of Bristol (one of only two offered) was reported in national newspapers.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Material Conditions of Writing
Iris Murdoch
IM
wrote poetry all her life. At the end of her first term at Badminton
, the school magazine carried her Fate of the Daisy Lee, a ballad about a sea-captain wrecked on the...