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Iris Murdoch Birthday Lecture: Lampooning Iris: Jaundiced Views and Academic Questions

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Miles Leeson will discuss Murdoch's reception by her contemporaries and look at the lighter side of how she was lampooned, both directly and indirectly, in the work of H.E. Bates, Malcolm Bradbury, Brigid Brophy, Barabara Pym and Ian McEwan as well as the reception of her work by Philip Larkin and Monica Jones.

£5.00 – £10.00

Walking Under the Net: A Guided Tour

Chancery Lane Tube Station High Holborn, London

Join your guides, Professor Anne Rowe and Dr Miles Leeson for a tour of Jake's London!

£15.00 – £20.00

Iris Murdoch: Birthday Lecture

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Much of our conception of the relationship between Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, happily married for over forty years, comes from Bayley's memoirs, and the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the first, Iris (2001). But what do we know of their life together outside of their public appearances and international travel?

Free – £5.00