IM
helped to fill the unaccustomed gap between novels in 1958 by writing a sequence of poems dedicated to her Precious dead, Frank Thompson
and Franz Steiner
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Murdoch
During her student days IM
attracted innumerable admirers, women as well as men: at times it seemed that everyone was in love with her. They included the first of two men whom she loved deeply...
Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Murdoch
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...
Textual Features
Iris Murdoch
Conradi (whose edition embraces a youthful diary from August 1939, while IM
was on the road with a student theatre group, and runs of letters to Frank Thompson
and Philip Hicks
) writes that before...