Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie : The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995.
Title:
Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie : The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995.
Author:
Dooley, Gillian.
ISBN:
9781443857659
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PERSONAL REMINISCENCESOF BRIAN MEDLIN -- EDITORS'NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- THE LETTERS -- IRIS MURDOCH'S REVIEWOF HUMANNATURE, HUMAN SURVIVALBY BRIAN MEDLIN -- ENDNOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Brian Medlin met the novelist Iris Murdoch at Oxford in 1961 when he joined New College as a Research Fellow, and they remained friends for the remainder of her life, though after he left Oxford they only met once again. This correspondence published here covers a period of more than twenty years. In his letters, Medlin regaled Murdoch with Australian jokes, travel stories and anecdotes, and answered her many questions about Australian flora and fauna, and the Australian vernacular. She in t...
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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