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Iris Murdoch, Sir Kingsley Amis, John Wain - Coggle Diagram
Iris Murdoch
Murdoch was born in Phibsborough, Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Irene Alice (née Richardson, 1899–1985)[2] and Wills John Hughes Murdoch.
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Her education
She was awarded a first-class honours degree in 1942.After leaving Oxford she went to work in London for HM Treasury.
Her father, a civil servant, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall, County Down.
In 1915, he enlisted as a soldier in King Edward's Horse and served in France during the First World War before being commissioned as a Second lieutenant.
Her mother had trained as a singer before Iris was born, and was from a middle-class Church of Ireland family in Dublin.
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Sir Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis was born on 16 April 1922 in Clapham, south London
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His wife Julia "was a large, dreadful, hairy-faced creature ... whom [Amis] loathed and feared.
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Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim (1954), satirises
That Uncertain Feeling (1955) features a young provincial librarian (perhaps with an eye to Larkin working as a librarian in Hull) and his temptation to adultery
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John Wain
John Barrington Wain CBE (14 March 1925 – 24 May 1994) was an English poet, novelist, and critic
Wain was born and grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, the son of a dentist
On 4 July 1947, Wain married Marianne Urmston
Wain wrote his first novel, Hurry on Down, in 1953
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Wain was also a prolific poet and critic, with critical works on fellow Midland writers Arnold Bennett
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