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
Dedications
Iris Murdoch
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
.
Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins.