The novel centres on the protagonist, Iris Chase, and her sister Laura, who grow up well-off but motherless in a small town in Southern Ontario.

The Arcadian Court also figures prominently in Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin, as the centre of Toronto's high society to which Iris Chase Griffen is introduced.

An example of crossover to her husband's work, Auster used Iris, the narrator of Hustvedt's first novel, The Blindfold, in his novel Leviathan.

* Iris DeMent's song, " Easy's Gettin ' Harder Every Day ", from her 1994 album, My Life, features a protagonist who laments that she will " never make it to Coeur d ' Alene ".

As the novel unfolds, and the novel-within-a-novel becomes ever more obviously inspired by real events, we learn that it is Iris, not Laura, who is the novel-within-a-novel's true author and protagonist.

From Iris Bell's tale in 1944 to the " Happiness Factory " today, they have succeeded in involving their customers in their advertising and creating emotional power.

Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school.

Frank Thompson was also a friend and confidant of Iris Murdoch, the philosopher and novelist.

Iris may also refer to:

The Boreads, sons of Boreas, the North Wind, who also could fly, succeeded in driving off the harpies, but without killing any of them, following a request from Iris, who promised that Phineas would not be bothered by the harpies again, and " the dogs of great Zeus " returned to their " cave in Minoan Crete ".

* The rainbow / messenger goddess Iris ( sister of the Harpies ) is sometimes also referred to as Podarge.

The children of Thaumas and Electra were the Harpies and Iris, the goddess of rainbows and a messenger of the gods ; according to some, also Arke.

Irus ( also Iros ; Ἶρος ) was a nickname given to Arnaeus ( Ἀρναῖος ) the beggar, due to his willingness to run messages for the suitors ( see also Iris, the divine rainbow messenger ).

Much later, in conjunction with Ray Ozzie's Iris Associates, Lotus also released a groupware and email system, Lotus Notes.

It may also be used to identify the caller, using technology such as Iris scan or other biometric means.

There is also Judee Levinson and her cleaning lady Iris Krell, who are in a constant mind-battle.

Mountwood and Woodchurch were also refitted and renamed Royal Iris of the Mersey and Snowdrop, respectively in 2002 and 2004.

Although the Royal Iris also has a large front-angled wheelhouse, it greatly matches the contours of the ship as does much of the steelwork replacement by Cammell Laird.

1948 ; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers ), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues ( 1986 ), but featured a young Plato himself as well.

It is also the basis for the title of the Booker Prize-winning novel by Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea.

The harpies were not caught in a net or caged, but were chased away by the Boreads: Calaïs and Zetes ( also Zethes ) Upon doing so, the goddess Iris promised the Harpies would not bother Phineas anymore.

This group also included Susana Giménez, Charytín, Iris Chacón, Ednita Nazario, Yolandita Monge and Rocío Dúrcal.

Big Creek also was the location in which the Peter Hughes dive boat " Wave Dancer " capsized during Hurricane Iris in October 2001, killing 20 persons, comprising 3 crew members and 17 vacationing divers from Richmond, Virginia. Official report.

In the Flash continuity, Iris Allen was also originally from 2945 CE.

An additional credit card with charges involving two of his secretaries, Iris Anthony and Stephannie Smart, was also uncovered.

Her earlier work had been mostly abstract, but works such as Black Iris III ( 1926 ) evoke a veiled representation of female genitalia while also accurately depicting the center of an iris.

Genera such as Crocus and Iris are significant components of the floras of parts of Eurasia, and Iris also is well represented in North America.

An unusual trait is that its wings only extend three quarters of the way down the abdomen in mature females, seen also in Iris oratoria, which can be distinguished by the large eyespots on its inner wings.

The crew also included Iris Evans, a flight attendant or " Stargirl ", who had previously served in the Women's Royal Naval Service (" Wrens ").

* Iris Murdoch published the novel The Black Prince in 1973.

This novel was originally published in 1974 as Bride of the Thirteenth Summer, under the name Iris Davies.

A Severed Head is a satirical, sometimes farcical 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch.

* The main character in Iris Murdoch's novel A Word Child, Hilary Burde, has a " flatlet " near Bayswater Tube Station.

Other novelists writing in the 1950s and later were: Anthony Powell ( 1905-2000 ) whose twelve-volume cycle of novels A Dance to the Music of Time ( 1951-1975 ), is a comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century ; comic novelist Kingsley Amis is best known for his academic satire Lucky Jim ( 1954 ); Nobel Prize laureate William Golding's allegorical novel Lord of the Flies ( 1954 ), explores how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys marooned on a deserted island ; philosopher Iris Murdoch was a prolific writer of novels that deal with such things as sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious.

:: For the 1961 novel by Iris Murdoch, see A Severed Head.

As compared to Open Inventor or Iris Performer, the design of the XSG included some novel ideas.

As Iris Jamahl Dunkle voiced in her article, “ often, when the novel appears in American films and television series, it stands as a symbol for teenage angst ,” such as in the series Family Guy, when “ the teenage daughter, Meg, is seen reading The Bell Jar instead of attending a spring-break party .”

The novel takes the form of a gradual revelation illuminating both Iris ' youth and her old age before coming to the pivotal events of her and Laura's lives around the time of the Second World War.

The novel ends as Iris dies, leaving the truth to be discovered in her unpublished autobiography that she leaves to her sole surviving granddaughter.

The Sea, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch.

Jobs he considered included a proposed John Schlesinger screen adaptation of the Iris Murdoch novel A Severed Head, and a project called The Marriage Game, to be directed by Peter Yates and produced by the James Bond team of Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli.

In the novel The Scarlet Empress, Iris Wildthyme claimed that a shape-changer who assumed the shape of a penguin was once her companion.

Reviewing the American edition of the novel, Iris Barry wrote that, " Love on the Dole is the real thing.

At the end of the novel, Iris Wildthyme seems to die and then become a baby in a scene reminiscent of regeneration.

Iris made her first full-length novel appearance in The Scarlet Empress, and went on to appear in several more short stories and novels in the BBC Books range, the most recent being Mad Dogs and Englishmen in 2002.

A full-length novel by Magrs featuring Iris and Panda, Enter Wildthyme, was published by Snowbooks in 2011, and a sequel-Wildthyme Beyond-released in 2012.