The Garden Cottage - A Holiday Cottage on Dartmoor
The Garden Cottage sits in the grounds of Tor Down House, former home to Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing. The cottage itself is a traditional, Grade II listed Devon longhouse which has been marvellously renovated into a beautiful thatched, single-storey hideaway, down a private drive on the outskirts of Belstone, 100 yards from open moorland.
Doris Lessing's former West Hampstead home sells for £2.1 million
2015年9月3日 · NOBEL Prize-winning author Doris Lessing’s former home in West Hampstead has sold for £2.1million. The new owners of the house in Gondar Gardens are now seeking planning permission to fit a new rear extension. Ms Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and famously conducted interviews on the doorstep. She died five years later ...
A London View | Doris Lessing | Granta Magazine
1999年3月25日 · Doris Lessing. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is the author of more than twenty novels, as well as autobiogrpahy, poetry, drama, non-fiction and short story collections. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Her first contribution to Granta was a short story in 1984, and her last was a ‘London View’ in 2008.
Analogue Ambles: Doris Lessing’s Hampstead Doorstep
2019年8月29日 · In the latest instalment of his Analogue Ambles column, Adam Scovell hunts down the Hampstead doorstep from which Doris Lessing conducted her first interviews as a Nobel Prize winner. An elderly lady was getting out of a black Hackney.
Doris Lessing: A room of oneâ?Ts own - New Statesman
2013年3月27日 · This article by Doris Lessing first appeared in the New Statesman in August 1963. The previous year she had published her breakthrough novel, “The Golden Notebook”. When I came into this flat of four small boxlike rooms, the bedroom was painted pale pink, except for the fireplace wall, which had a fanciful pink and blue paper.
Home Fires: Doris Lessing, Colonial Architecture, and the …
This essay scrutinizes Doris Lessing’s reconstructions of home in her autobiographical writings through the lens of early twentieth-century pamphlet guides to Southern Rhodesian settler culture and architecture.
Home Fires: Doris Lessing, Colonial Architecture, and the …
As the child of settlers, Lessing's claim that the house in the Southem Rhodesian bush is her true home reveals a complex set of affiliations with a land the English occupied by force, a land that, in more than just a nominal sense, no longer exists.
In this essay, I read the form, construction, and use of Lessing's childhood home as an architectural representation of colonial sub- jectivity in order to discuss the cross-hatched operations in the colonies of gender, race, and class that, as Anne McClintock has argued, "come into existence in and through relation to each other-if in contradic...
The 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature - Doris Lessing
Doris receives the news of her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature as she arrives home in a taxi: Doris Lessing Nobel Lecture December 7, 2007 On not winning the Nobel Prize © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2007. I am standing in a doorway looking through clouds of blowing dust to where I am told there is still uncut forest.
Doris Lessing - Wikipedia
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist.She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925.Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England.Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of ...