Doris Lessing

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Standard Name: Lessing, Doris
Birth Name: Doris May Tayler
Married Name: Doris May Wisdom
Married Name: Doris May Lessing
Pseudonym: Jane Somers
The formidably productive and versatile DL , Nobel Prize winner, set her mark on late twentieth-century fiction and remained a force to be reckoned with in the twenty-first. Her major themes—life in colonial Africa, the problems confronting women (political, sexual, spiritual), human experience depicted through recourse to imaginary, extraterrestrial cultures—embrace most of the central concerns of her generation. As well as novels, short stories, science fiction, poetry, plays, essays, political analysis, travel books, and autobiography, she published light-hearted cultural satire and books about cats.
Head-shot of Doris Lessing, with her grey hair pulled back, and wearing a colourful patchwork jacket.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Anthony Trollope
The Barsetshire and Palliser novels together make up only a small proportion of AT 's total of forty-seven full-length fictions. Unusual among them are Nina Balatka, 1867 (issued anonymously in an attempt—like Doris Lessing
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anita Brookner
AB relishes all this. But she writes with tactful sympathy of Germaine de Staël and her younger, mostly unreciprocating lovers, and of Judith Gautier (daughter of Théophile ), who deserves to be remembered not only...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Germaine Greer
The introduction begins, It is not quite forty years since eliminating menopause was first mooted.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
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It moves swiftly into the concept of a fear or hatred of old women, which Greer names anophobia.
Greer, Germaine. The Change. Penguin.
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Travel Michèle Roberts
MR later remembered Bangkok for its bright colours, its heterogenous lives, and its pungent smells.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago.
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After her time working in South-East Asia, she spent some time travelling.
Michèle Roberts. http://www.micheleroberts.co.uk/index.htm.
She wandered with a friend, Sarah Dunant
Travel Margaret Drabble
Her travels (like those of Doris Lessing ) have included visiting China with a writers' group in 1993.
Athill, Diana et al. “Who am I? Who do I want to be?”. The Guardian, Vol.
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