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Iris Murdoch

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Kar photographed Murdoch as she worked on the manuscript for 'The Bell' (1958), one of her most popular novels and the first to be influenced by Plato.

Murdoch is seen here at Cedar Lodge, Steeple Aston, where she had moved two years before her marriage to writer, critic and fellow Oxford don, John Bayley.

National Portrait Gallery, London

London

Title

Iris Murdoch

Date

1957

Medium

square film negative

Accession number

x132970

Acquisition method

purchased, 1999

Work type

Photograph

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