We've got a wonderful conference coming up next week at Chichester University @chiunipress.bsky.social! Take a look at the programme...👇
Iris Murdoch
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The Official Account of the Iris Murdoch Society
“I’ve never thought of counting words. I’d rather not know.” —Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch, The Art of Fiction No. 117
“You can’t write a traditional novel without giving your characters moral problems and judgments.”
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Dame Iris Murdoch was a highly acclaimed Irish-born British novelist and philosopher celebrated for her deep psychological insights into morality, love, and the human unconscious. That’s impressive! 😊 #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory
not bad at all, we are due an Iris Murdoch revival
Those lovely people at @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social have a new edition of Elias Canetti's 'Crowds and Power' out next month. Iris reviewed it in 1962 in The Spectator.
Miles Leeson has got a new book out next month to mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at Chichester. It collects essays from the past decade alongside new ones written especially for this publication. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/mrsb...
'Visiting Mrs Bayley and Other Essays' - The Iris Murdoch Society
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Iris Murdoch Research Center, Miles Leeson (the Director of the Center) has collected his essays from the past decade in this volume.
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I’ve painstakingly built a library of Murdoch’s books, only lacking An Unofficial Rose. My latest acquisition is the one I’m reading now, The Italian Girl, found by chance late one night in a used bookstore on the Bowery. (Yes there are duplicate titles; some editions I can’t resist.)
We've got a new Iris Murdoch Exhibition coming up at Chichester next month! Featuring newly-discovered works by Iris herself, her contemporaries, and current artists who draw their inspiration from her. Full details on the (self portrait by Iris) poster! @chiunipress.bsky.social
Iris Murdoch was born otd in 1919. For last year's #WiseWomen episode, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter to explore the relationship between Murdoch’s novels and her philosophical writing with Miles Leeson, Director of the @irismurdoch.bsky.social Research Centre: youtu.be/0ryeXToZFV0?...
Iris Murdoch: Roving Philosophical Report
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Birthday Blogpost! Influences and Inspirations: Iris Murdoch, Janet Frame and Susan Howatch irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2026/07/15/f...
Influences and Inspirations: Iris Murdoch, Janet Frame and Susan Howatch - The Iris Murdoch Society
To the long list of writers known to be influenced by Murdoch, I want to add the names of Janet Frame and Susan Howatch. Janet Frame (1924– 2004) is a great writer from Dunedin, New Zealand; Susan How...
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Cover Reveal for IMR 17 - coming soon! As ever, a packed issue full of essays, reviews, reports and more. Members get their copy posted directly AND online access on publication. Not yet a member? Treat yourself... irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/memb...
From the archive for Iris Murdoch, #BornOnThisDay in 1919, thoughts on UNDER THE NET. I loved this thoroughly engaging novel of mismatched affections, set within London’s bohemian set. A subtly clever blend of the picaresque & the philosophical. #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/u...
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
My first experience of Iris Murdoch’s fiction but hopefully not my last. Under the Net – Murdoch’s debut novel, first published in 1954 – is a subtly clever blend of the picaresque and the philosop…
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As a treat on Murdoch's Birthday, we've made the last Iris Murdoch Review Open Access! Full details and download via the link: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/iris...
Iris Murdoch Review 16, 2025 - The Iris Murdoch Society
The wealth of academic material published in this issue not only broadens our understanding of Murdoch’s own vision of her fiction and philosophy, but more importantly perhaps, the range of responses ...
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Bad news: tomorrow is St Swithin's Day. Good news: it's @irismurdoch.bsky.social 's birthday
ok so i've been reading "A Fairly Honorable Defeat" and it's amazing, 10/10, has immediately moved into my top place as Best Iris Murdoch novel. good enough that if i saw it i would purchase it immediately
Coming soon on #BBCRADIO4 #Greatlives, Iris Murdoch! Guest Russell Kane with Murdoch expert, Miles Leeson, presented by Matthew Parris.
“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.” – Iris Murdoch
I love this. Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood
As we near the end of Pride month, St Anne’s celebrates our LGBTQIA+ students, staff and alumnae. This time, we focus on the incomparable Iris Murdoch.
Coming up in September at the University of Galway! @inparenthesis.bsky.social @philosophellie.bsky.social @lucyoulton.bsky.social @drlucyelvis.bsky.social @micheladianetti.bsky.social
A customer has come in to complain that I recommended The Book and the Brotherhood*. "THE WRONG BLOKE DIED!" IKR? *some years ago, I might add.
“Can there still, now, be avatars, great teachers pure of heart in whose truth we can believe? I think there are such people, we are unlikely to meet them, but such presences can distribute light, they can prove something: even, in our more closely knitted planet, have influence.” - Iris Murdoch
I only have 1 Iris Murdoch novel I haven’t yet read in paperback so, Accidental Man, you’re coming with me.
New course, live online, with Miles Leeson. Iris Murdoch and Marriage. ‘Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.’ Sundays, fortnightly, 10 January to 7 March 2027, 6.00-8.00 pm UK time www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-marr...
