Doris Lessing

✍ Scribed by Margaret Moan Rowe (auth.)

• Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 145
• Series: Women Writers
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Far Counties: Lessing’s Early Years....Pages 1-12
Two Versions of a White African Girlhood: The Grass Is Singing and Children of Violence ....Pages 13-28
The Sex War: Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, and The Golden Notebook ....Pages 29-45
‘Charting the New Territory’: The Four-Gated City ....Pages 47-58
Parables of Inner Space: Briefing for a Descent into Hell, The Summer Before the Dark, and The Memoirs of a Survivor ....Pages 59-76
‘Many a Planet by Many a Sun’: Canopus in Argos ....Pages 77-90
Re-entry: The Diaries of Jane Somers, The Good Terrorist, and The Fifth Child ....Pages 91-109
‘The Battle of the Books’: Lessing and the Critics....Pages 111-123
Back Matter....Pages 125-137

✦ Subjects

Fiction; Twentieth-Century Literature; Gender Studies