Margaret Hubbard

The dedicatee is Margaret Hubbard , who like Murdoch was one of St Anne's College 's original Fellows when it achieved collegiate status in 1957. The book was adapted for television in 1975 by Simon Raven .

She said she wanted to devote more time to writing, which was true. She had also been warned by the principal about the scandal caused by her long-standing relationship with a colleague, the classicism Margaret Hubbard