Professor John Bayley and Dame Iris Murdoch photographed in the back garden of their home in Oxford. When this photograph, one of the last of her, was taken Dame Iris was in the latter stages of Alzheimer's and her husband described her as being like "a very nice 3-year-old,". She died in Oxford on February 8, 1999. In his memoir Elegy for Iris John Bayley portrays his brilliant wife lovingly but unsentimentally. next

 

 
     
   
     

 
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