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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was born to British parents on October 22, 1919, in Kermanshah, Iran. When Lessing was five years old, her family moved to a farm in Southern Rhod...
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Biography EssayDoris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 with her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and she has remained at the top ever since. In the past four decades, her work ...
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Doris Lessing (born 1919) was a South African expatriate writer known for her strong sense of feminism. A short story writer and novelist, as well as essayist and critic, Lessing was deeply concerned ...
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Doris Lessing, whose long career as a novelist, short story writer, and essayist began in the mid-twentieth century, is considered among the most important writers of the modern postwar era. Since her...
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[This entry was updated by Paul Schlueter from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 228-254.]Doris Lessing burst upon the British literary scene in 1950 wit...
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Doris Lessing's literary career spans more than four decades; consequently her texts, both fiction and nonfiction, are valuable at the most basic level as historical records that tackle the central po...
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In the following essay, Hite examines the origins of Lessing's metafictional The Golden Notebook.
Metafiction—fiction that is in some overt way about fiction—is one of the few lit...
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In the following essay, Altman assesses the unresolved sexual conflicts portrayed in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins.
Dans un espace courbe, o...
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Critical Essay by Molly Hite
