Iris Murdoch, Jackson's Dilemma

Frances Clare Patricia White (Kingston University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1995

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Jackson's Dilemma is the last of Iris Murdoch's twenty-six novels published in 1995, forty years after her first, Under the Net (1954). It received puzzled, as well as mixed reviews. By the beginning of 1997, an article confirming that Murdoch was suffering from Alzheimer's Disease had appeared in The Daily Telegraph (Feb 4^th 1997). John Bayley's memoirs, Iris (1998) and Iris and the Friends (1999), reveal that “the first symptoms declared themselves” as early as 1993-4, and it is clear that she was struggling to write this final novel in a state of increasing mental distress and disability. Scientists investigating the nature of Alzheimer'…

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Citation: White, Frances Clare Patricia. "Jackson's Dilemma". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 September 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4373, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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