Doris Lessing and motherhood: Why the novelist left her first two …
2022年4月26日 · Lessing was said to have left her first two children behind in her home country, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1949, when she went to London with the manuscript of her first novel. For...
Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother
2023年4月25日 · In 1949, Doris Lessing left behind two children from her first marriage when she moved to London from then-Rhodesia. Lessing brought along her third child, Peter, as well as a suitcase containing the manuscript for The Grass Is Singing. Once she got to London, the novel was published (or re-published—it had previously been published in ...
Doris Lessing - Wikipedia
In 1937 Doris moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator, and she soon married her first husband, civil servant Frank Wisdom, with whom she had two children (John, 1940–1992, and Jean, born in 1941), before the marriage ended in 1943. [9]
暴力下的孩子 - 百度百科
《暴力下的孩子》是英国小说家朵丽丝·莱辛创作的半自传体小说。 小说以诚实冷静的笔触记述了一名在非洲长大的白人青年妇女的人生追求和探索，讲述了在非洲中部相对封闭的小城长大的女孩马莎，发现书中描述的道德标准总与现实生活格格不入，决定离家出走。 二战期间，她与地下的共产主义组织频繁接触，与第一任丈夫离婚后投入第二次婚姻，不久对这一切失望，决定离开非洲去英国开始一段新生活。
Children of Violence - Wikipedia
The Children of Violence is a sequence of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). [1]
The Reluctant African: The Life and Irascibility of Doris Lessing
2013年11月21日 · Desolated by the isolation in which she found herself, Doris's mother allowed her two small children to tear up the fancy gowns for play clothes. "She was warm-hearted but insensitive,"...
Jenny Diski · Why can’t people just be sensible? - London Review …
His mother, Doris Lessing, died four weeks later, on 17 November 2013, aged 94, in the adjoining house. An interconnecting door had been cut into the shared wall and was always left open.
Two Lives: Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
These fictional lives are spun by Lessing from the material of memory: half-forgotten observations of childhood and adolescence; family anecdotes, repeated over years and even decades, which reveal crucial details of each parent’s character.
The Children of Violence - Ruth Hartley
2022年1月15日 · Doris Lessing was a damaged and difficult person, but also a remarkable writer whose words sustained me and kept me alive. ‘Aye, there’s the rub’. We are all both damaged and wonderful. Knowledge of our damaged selves ought to make us kinder to ourselves and to others and so make others kind to us.
3 - Sequence, Series and Character in Children of Violence
2017年5月26日 · It begins by negating three ways of learning about her mother (telling, deducing, witnessing), before listing a series of stages in her life, ‘girlhood’, ‘nursing years’, ‘Persia’, each given two attributes, the first and last echoing through the repetition of ‘so … so …’, with the knowable father whose act of ‘witness’ is not enough at the centre.