Elizabeth Maslen
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography writes that NM
has a lively awareness of an audience beyond her own class and that her novels aim to reinvent . . . the story-telling...
Reception
Storm Jameson
SJ
was offered the award of CBE in 1979, but declined.
“The Refuseniks and the Offers They Turned Down”. Sunday Times, p. 5.
5
Her books sold well in their time and were translated into Czech, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Virago
re-issued...
Textual Features
Doris Lessing
Critic Elizabeth Maslen
has called this novel a wide-ranging engagement with contemporary society seen through the eyes of women.
DL
's protagonist, Anna Wulf, is like Martha Quest a kind of alter-ego. She is...
Textual Production
Doris Lessing
Scholar Elizabeth Maslen
notes the complexity of DL
's bibliography: she used many different publishers, and appeared in many different paperback imprints, some of them since swallowed up by different names.
