


Iris Murdoch was a prodigiously inventive and idiosyncratic author, whose first novel, Under the Net, was published in 1954 to generally excellent reviews, the TLS declaring that it announced the emergence of ''a brilliant talent". At the end of the war she worked in displaced persons camps in Belgium and Austria before returning to Oxford as Fellow in Philosophy at St. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck"īorn in Dublin, Anglo-Irish writer Iris Murdoch read Classical Moderations and Greats at Oxford and in 1942 entered the Treasury as a temporary wartime civil servant.
