Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography
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Peter Conradi J.. Iris Murdoch: A Life: The Authorized Biography
IRIS. MURDOCH
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
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I INNOCENCE Fairy-Tale Princess 1919–1944
1 ‘You ask how Irish she is?’ 1616–1925
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2 No Mean City 1925—1932
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3 The Clean-Cut Rational World 1932—1938
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4 A Very Grand Finale 1938–1939
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5 Madonna Bolshevicka 1939–1942
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6 This Love Business 1942–1943
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7 ‘A la Guerre, comme à la Guerre’ 1943–1944
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8 A Madcap Tale 1944–1946
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II INNOCENCE LOST Storm and Stress 1944–1956
9 Displaced Persons 1946–1947
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10 Cambridge 1947–1948
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11 St Anne’s 1948–1952
12 Franz Baermann Steiner– 1951-1952
13 Conversations with a Prince 1952–1956
14 An Ideal Co-Child 1953–1956
III INNOCENCE REGAINED Wise Child 1956–1999
15 Cedar Lodge 1956–1961
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16 Island of Spells 1961–1965
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17 What a Decade! 1965–1969
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18 Shakespeare and Friends 1970–1978
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19 Discontinuities 1971–1978
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20 Icons and Patriarchs 1978–1994
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21 ‘Past speaking of 1994–1999
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NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the Author. IRIS MURDOCH: A LIFE
AFTERWORD
Copyright
About the Publisher
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A Life
PETER J. CONRADI
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Iris’s willingness to mythologise her own origins, and to lament a long-lost demesne (in her case, a real ancestry), both mark her out as a kinswoman of Yeats.* The ‘Butler’ appended to the Yeats family name proposed a not entirely fictitious connexion to that grandest of clans, the Anglo-Irish Dukes of Ormonde. Family pride runs through much of Iris’s rhetoric about her background, both in interviews and also in Chapter 2 of The Red and the Green, with its authorial identification with the old Protestant ruling order, as well as its claim for that order to speak for the whole of Ireland, Catholic and Protestant alike.
The relation between Iris and her cousins was complex. Another Richardson relative she claimed77 – on no known evidence – who had presumably not suffered from the general Richardson decline, was a Major-General Alexander Arthur Richardson, serving with the Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War. The Belfast family phrase ‘the Ladies’ bathing-place’ amused Iris. So did the Belfast cousins calling a ‘slop-basin’ – for tea-slops – a ‘refuse-vase’, which the Murdochs considered a genteelism.78 If Iris’s family found the Belfast cousinry genteel, Belfast cousin Sybil Livingston conversely thought the cigarette-holder Iris sported for a while ‘posh'; and she was amazed in 1998 to learn that Rene had a sister of any kind, let alone one with four sons, giving Iris first cousins in Dublin as well as Belfast. ‘You are my only family,’ Sybil recalls Iris saying – mysteriously as it might appear: perhaps there was a remarkable depth of reserve on both sides.79 Sybil around 1930 had passed on to her a ‘wonderful’ party frock of Iris’s, pale blue satin, with a braid of little pink and blue and white rosebuds sewn round the neck and sleeves. For Iris, a much-loved only child, as for Elizabeth Bowen, Ireland represented company.
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