The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels ...

Dame Iris Murdoch was a novelist, philosopher, playwright and Oxford academic. Her books explored morality, love and human relationships and won widespread acclaim, as well as the Whitbread Prize ...

The system continued, musing earnestly: Is this response born of love and wisdom ... For philosophers like Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, the capacity to give true attention to another being ...

Lera: Françoise Sagan, Iris Murdoch, Susan Hill, John Updike (‘pointless ... and the book – From Newbury with Love, edited by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter and Marina Aidova – is a reminder of a time when ...

The electorate covers 73 square kilometres and includes all or parts of Malvern East, Glen Iris, Camberwell ... and as a medical researcher at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

Love scenes are strange anyway ... It was, according to Kate Winslet 'just another day in the office' when she stripped down for her role as novelist Iris Murdoch in 2001’s Iris. She said, 'I just go ...

Through all the turbulence that's always in the spotlight, she's had the support of one man for 23 years— a rarity in the world of the famed. Her marriage to doctor Neil Murray remains discreet yet ...

William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love is obviously, and winningly ... We find Jarman at a house party with Iris Murdoch, who gazes upon the company ‘with her big blue-grey-violet eyes’. Then we ...

A moral realist influenced by Plato and Simone Weil, she developed theories in virtue ethics and care ethics. So what is the ...

The writer Iris Murdoch may have said it best in “The Sea, the Sea,” a 1978 novel that won the Booker Prize: “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of ...