FB received medals from the Swedish Academy
in 1831 and (a more prestigious one) in 1844. She had a beneficial effect both on the status of women in Sweden, and on English ideas of Sweden...
Reception
Doris Lessing
The Royal Swedish Academy
announced the award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to DL
: the eleventh woman to have won it.
Rich, Motoko, and Sarah Lyall. “Doris Lessing Wins Nobel Prize in Literature”. The New York Times, 11 Oct. 2007.
Reception
Doris Lessing
This novel was, however, highly and perceptively praised by Anita Brookner
in a retrospective review reprinted in her Soundings, 1997. The Royal Swedish Academy
in 2007 called it one of the handful of books...
