When Rose Dugdale was in Limerick prison, her old tutor Iris Murdoch wrote a letter to the Irish ambassador to the UK requesting an improvement in Dugdale’s reading material. “I am worried because I fear she is not being allowed to receive serious and learned matter (on economics and history) which various people are wanting to send her. She wishes to study but cannot, a terrible extra punishment to an intellectual person. “Needless to say, I detest her actions and views, I have not written to her or seen her, and do not propose to. But I feel this loss…

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