ND
was educated at a convent school, which she left at the age of fourteen. Reading of some texts which were vital to her experience—Jane Austen
and Jean-Paul Sartre
—came after she had left...
Education
Iris Murdoch
In Brussels, while working for UNRRA
, IM
first encountered existentialist philosophy, which was to have a profound effect on her life and work. She met Sartre
in 1945. At a slightly later stage...
death
Simone de Beauvoir
Her body was returned to Paris for burial at Montparnasse cemetery beside Sartre
. Five thousand people walked in her funeral procession.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
