Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War

Letters and Diaries, 1939-1945

• Author(s): Peter J. Conradi,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 304
• ISBN_10: 0199831947
  ISBN_13: 9780199831944
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Collections / Letters , Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Women Authors , Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... These never before published writings comprise Iris Murdoch's passionate wartime correspondence with two early intimates: the poet Frank Thompson, brother of the historian E.P. Thompson, who was killed in 1944, and David Hicks, with whom she had a dramatic affair, engagement, and breakup. It also includes the journal that Murdoch kept as a touring actress during August of 1939. The selection sheds new light on a brilliant young mind ("sharp and polished as a sword" as Frances Wilson describes it), while painting a vivid picture of life during the Second World War.