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...
Doris Lessing - Wikipedia
Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her younger son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and socialist beliefs, but left the two older children with their father Frank Wisdom. She later said that at the time she saw no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing.
Peter Lessing (1947 - 2013) - Genealogy - Geni.com
2022年4月29日 · Following the breakdown of her second marriage, [Doris] Lessing left her two eldest children from her first marriage in the care of their father and his second wife and moved to England, taking her son Peter, a large collection of books, and the manuscript for her first novel, "The Grass is Singing."
Jenny Diski Remembers Doris Lessing: Why Can’t People Be …
2015年8月20日 · Jenny Diski remembers Doris Lessing’s unemotional approach to motherhood and life. Peter Lessing died in his flat, of a heart attack, in the early hours of 13 October 2013, aged 66. His mother, Doris Lessing, died four weeks later, on 17 November 2013, aged 94, in the adjoining house.
Biography - Doris Lessing
By 1949, Lessing had moved to London with her young son. That year, she also published her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, and began her career as a professional writer. Lessing's fiction is deeply autobiographical, much of it emerging out of her experiences in Africa.
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 ...
The Reluctant African: The Life and Irascibility of Doris Lessing
2013年11月21日 · Born in British-controlled Persia in 1919 to parents who so balked at the arrival of a daughter, it was left to the doctor to come up with a girl's name, in 1924 Lessing moved with her family to...
Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes - Peter Lang Verlag
Peter Raina elucidates this in a short Introduction and an Epilogue discussing aspects of her writings. Doris Lessing with her son, Peter. By courtesy of Gabriele. Gysi, Berlin (private collection). Mrs Gabriele Gysi (Berlin) from her private collection. Frau. Gabriele is the daughter of Irene Gysi, sister of Gottfried Lessing.
Doris Lessing Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
Lessing was attracted to the Left Book Club, a Socialist publishing club. She joined the group, married and later divorced her second husband Gottfried Lessing. She shifted to London with her son, Peter.
Doris Lessing Biography - eNotes.com
She married Frank Charles Wisdom in 1939, had a son and a daughter, and was divorced in 1943. Two years later she married Gottfried Lessing; they had a son and were divorced in 1949.