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An 'Iris' Stripped of Her Brilliance

By ELAINE SHOWALTER

John Bayley was the Warton Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a noted critic of Hardy, James, and Tolstoy; but he is best known today as the husband and caretaker of the far more eminent novelist and philosophy don Dame Iris Murdoch.

Bayley's three books about caring for Murdoch through her slow death from Alzheimer's (Elegy for Iris, Iris...

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