In November 1945, after more than seven years of separation, IM
again met David Hicks
, whom she had known as a somewhat older and more worldly student at Oxford. She had been corresponding with...
Intertextuality and Influence
Iris Murdoch
This time the novel's hidden template is Shakespeare
's The Tempest; IM
also made use of her abortive engagement in 1945 to David Hicks
.
Conradi, Peter J. “A Literary Witness to Good and Evil”. Guardian Weekly, Guardian Publications, p. 24.
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