| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Light, darkness and owls; Footnotes; 1 Early Days, 1924-33; Greenford Rectory; Starting school; Moving on; Greenford growing; Parental activities; Other Scrutton relatives; More relatives: the Hays; Ladies and non-ladies; 2 The Ancestors; Thomas Urquhart and the universal language; Early Scruttons; The Lord Justice; 3 At Downe House School, 1932-7; The place; Learning this and that; Attending to History: Collingwood; A world apart; 4 At Oxford, 1938-42; Preparations; Changing times, changing families; Generational apartheid; Time in Vienna |
| Summary |
One of the UK's foremost moral philosophers, Mary Midgley recounts her remarkable story in this elegiac and moving account of friendships lost and found, bitter philosophical battles and of a profound love of teaching |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018.
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| SUBJECT |
Midgley, Mary, 1919-2018 fast |
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Philosophers -- England -- Biography
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Philosophers
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England
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203027394 |
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0203027396 |
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9781134208647 |
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1134208642 |
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9781134208593 |
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1134208596 |
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9781134208630 |
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1134208634 |
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9780415371391 |
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0415371392 |
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