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John and Iris in Japan ims "Her great good fortune was to be loved and captured by John Bayley. She wrote to one correspondant that it was "a perfect marriage" and to another that every day spent away from John was "a day wasted". The mariage was totally necessary to her and it was important to her work that there was an orderliness to the life that she and John had together, in spite of the creative untidyness of their house. For Iris must have toiled hard each day to achieve as much as she did." - A Personal Memoir, Phillipa Foot
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Plato, Aster
    Thou wert the morning-star among the living,

      Ere thy fair light had fled;

    Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving

      New splendour to the dead.

PLATO
(Translation: P.B.Shelley)

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- Portrait By Tom Phillips

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    Iris as she has appeared on the covers of her Novels

    (left, right)

    and in the National Portrait Gallery

    (left)

    Tom Phillips recounts Iris sitting for that portrait at his website
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