Diski, Jenny. “Doris and Me”. London Review of Books, No. 1, pp. 21 - 3.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Doris Lessing | At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight
and Alan Sillitoe
, Arnold Wesker
and his wife Diski, Jenny. “Doris and Me”. London Review of Books, No. 1, pp. 21 - 3. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Health | Edna O'Brien | She was treated with LSD by R. D. Laing
. Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38 - 9. 39 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Judith Kazantzis | JK
began writing at the age of seven. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Bernice Rubens | The protagonist, Norman Zweck, the son of a rabbi, starts out as his family's favourite, the one expected to rise to the top. While his sister remains infantilised, unable to enter adulthood, Norman duly becomes... |
Textual Features | Angela Carter | Joseph Harker, a hospital orderly who suffers debilitating dreams, provides the third-person viewpoint of the narrative. As the lives of various characters randomly intersect, the plot is less significant than the situation. At the end... |
Textual Features | Edna O'Brien | According to Anne Enright, O'Brien's father and her husband are two great shadows in this memoir. Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38 - 9. 38 |