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Beauvoir Biography Biography: Iris Murdoch

1919: Born in Dublin, Ireland.
1938-42: Study at Somerville College, Oxford.
1942-44: Assistant Principal in the Treasury.
1944-46: Administrative Officer with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration in England, Belguim, and Austria.
1947-48: Sarah Smithson Studentship in philosophy, Newnham College, Cambridge.
1948: Named Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
1953: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
1954: Under the Net.
1956: Marriage to Mr. John Bayley; The Flight from the Enchanter.
1957: The Sandcastle.
1958: The Bell
1961: A Severed Head.
1962: An Unofficial Rose.
1963: Named Honorable Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford;The Unicorn.
1963-67: Lecturer at Royal College of Art.
1964: The Italian Girl.
1965: The Red and the Green.
1966: The time of the Angels.
1968: The Nice and the Good.
1969: Bruno's Dream.
1970: A Fairly Honorable Defeat.
1971: An Accidental Man.
1973: The Black Prince
1974: The Sacred & Profane Love Machine.
1978: The writer J. B. Priestley dramatized her 1961 novel, A Severed Hand.
The Sea, The Sea, won the Booker Prize.
1986: The Good Apprentice.
1987: Made a Dame of the British Empire.
1992: Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals: Philosophical Reflections.
1994: The Green Knight.
1997: Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

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1919:	Born in Dublin, Ireland.
1938-42:	Study at Somerville College, Oxford.
1942-44:	Assistant Principal in the Treasury.
1944-46:	Administrative Officer with United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
	Administration in England, Belguim, and Austria.
1947-48:	Sarah Smithson Studentship in philosophy, Newnham College, Cambridge.
1948:	Named Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
1953:	Sartre: Romantic Rationalist
1954:	Under the Net.
1956:	Marriage to Mr. John Bayley; The Flight from the Enchanter.
1957:	The Sandcastle.
1958:	The Bell
1961:	A Severed Head.
1962:	An Unofficial Rose.
1963:	Named Honorable Fellow, St. Anne's College, Oxford;The Unicorn.
1963-67:	Lecturer at Royal College of Art.
1964:	The Italian Girl.
1965:	The Red and the Green.
1966:	The time of the Angels.
1968:	The Nice and the Good.
1969:	Bruno's Dream.
1970:	A Fairly Honorable Defeat.
1971:	An Accidental Man.
1973:	The Black Prince
1974:	The Sacred & Profane Love Machine.
1978:	The writer J. B. Priestley dramatized her 1961 novel, A Severed Hand.
	The Sea, The Sea, won the Booker Prize.
1986:	The Good Apprentice.
1987:	Made a Dame of the British Empire.
1992:	Metaphysics As a Guide to Morals: Philosophical Reflections.
1994:	The Green Knight.
1997:	Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

Biography: Iris Murdoch