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.
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...