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... Lessing's fiction does not exclude those others ; implicitly it invites them in . Doris Lessing was born Doris Tayler in Kermanshah , Persia , in 1919. The date and place refer us directly to history - the history of the British empire ...
... Lessing's fiction does not exclude those others ; implicitly it invites them in . Doris Lessing was born Doris Tayler in Kermanshah , Persia , in 1919. The date and place refer us directly to history - the history of the British empire ...
Page 175
... Lessing's fiction . She arrived in London in 1949 with the manuscript of a novel about race relations in Africa and ... Lessing , however , soon became dissatisfied with it , for moral / political as well as aesthetic reasons ; as she ...
... Lessing's fiction . She arrived in London in 1949 with the manuscript of a novel about race relations in Africa and ... Lessing , however , soon became dissatisfied with it , for moral / political as well as aesthetic reasons ; as she ...
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... Lessing's earlier books . Of course I remember that Lessing's early heroines are often said to do welfare work ; that is what Anna turns to at the end of The Golden Notebook . But in those cases such work was subsumed in the larger ...
... Lessing's earlier books . Of course I remember that Lessing's early heroines are often said to do welfare work ; that is what Anna turns to at the end of The Golden Notebook . But in those cases such work was subsumed in the larger ...
Contents
1 THE EMPIRE AND THE ADVENTURE | 1 |
THE EMPIRE | 16 |
THE SISTERS | 46 |
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