Dora left her husband six months earlier, but he has persuaded her to return to him. Dora is a young former art student who is married to the difficult and demanding Paul Greenfield, an art historian who is staying at Imber Court as a guest while studying 14th-century manuscripts belonging to the Abbey. The novel begins with the journey of Dora Greenfield from London to Imber by train. The community supports itself by a market garden. The owner of Imber Court and the community's de facto leader is Michael Meade, a former schoolmaster in his late 30s. It is situated next to Imber Abbey, a convent belonging to an enclosed community of Benedictine nuns. The setting is Imber Court, a country house in Gloucestershire that is the home of a small Anglican lay religious community. It is set in a lay religious community situated next to an enclosed community of Benedictine nuns in Gloucestershire. Published in 1958, it was her fourth novel. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.The Bell is a novel by Iris Murdoch. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her 'inspiring contribution to life writing' and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children's Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her philosophy includes Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953) and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (1992) other philosophical writings, including 'The Sovereignty of Good' (1970), are collected in Existentialists and Mystics (1997).Ī.S. Her twenty-six novels include the Booker prize-winning The Sea, The Sea (1978), the James Tait Black Memorial prize-winning The Black Prince (1973) and the Whitbread prize-winning The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974).
Iris Murdoch made her writing debut in 1954 with Under the Net. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art.
She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge.
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