Weird literary comparisons, department of

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Were I thinking of three female writers of (roughly speaking) the mid-C20th to group together, would I align

Dame Iris Murdoch*

with Elizabeth Bowen** and Penelope Fitzgerald***?

I think not, somehow.

Found this odd comparison in a review of a collection of Dame I's wartime diaries and letters, plus memoir of her by one of the many young men in whom she took an interest, in a rather elderly copy of the London Review of Books. (Between the time it takes the work copies to circulate to me, and my finding time to glance through them, many moons can wax and wane, srsly.)

*Apparently there is a whole centre for Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University.

**The Anglo-Irish thing, perhaps?

***I don't even.

Comments

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Dame Iris Murdoch*


with Elizabeth Bowen**


A.S. Byatt wrote novels influenced by each of them?

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'Salmons in both'??

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Written in English?

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Characters with the same name?

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They wrote about people, and about people interacting with other people?

Nope, nothing here either.