She finished it just after returning from Dublin to her home at Steeple Aston in autumn 1964, and dedicated it to Philippa Foot
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Murdoch
She had affairs during this period with Michael Foot
(who married her intimate friend Philippa Foot
) and with Tommy Balogh
, the Jewish-Hungarian-born economist, even though she judged the latter to be an emotional...
Friends, Associates
Iris Murdoch
IM
's friends stood very close to the centre of her life. Many of her friendships were eroticized; it is hard or impossible to divide her lovers from her friends. It was of both kinds...
Reception
Iris Murdoch
IM
destroyed many letters and diaries on moving from Cedar Lodge in Steeple Aston to 68 Hamilton Road in Oxford in March 1986. She not only destroyed war journals, but also used a razor blade...
Timeline
1978: Philosopher Philippa Foot's most important...
Women writers item
1978
Philosopher Philippa Foot
's most important essays from 1957 to 1976 were collected in Virtues and Vices.
Kersey, Ethel M. Women Philosophers: A Bio-Critical Source Book. Greenwood, 1989.
