Mary Beatrice Midgley was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights. She wrote her first book, Bea
Midgley in 2002
Midgley's father was a King's College chaplain.
Midgley studied Greats at Oxford, going up to Somerville in 1938.
The Lives of Animals is a metafictional novella about animal rights by the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. The work is introduced by Amy Gutmann
J. M. Coetzee received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1983 and 1999 Booker Prize.