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
Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British subjects. [7] Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I , met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital in London where he was recovering from his amputation .
Doris Lessing Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
Doris Lessing was born to British couple, Emily Maude and Captain Alfred Tayler. Alfred’s leg was amputated during his WWI service; he was employed as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia. In 1925, the family shifted to Southern Rhodesia, then a British colony, where they farmed on a land owned by Alfred.
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...
Biography - Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Persia (now Iran) on October 22, 1919. Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse.
Her Story | BBC World Service
Doris Lessing describes herself as a very early drop-out. She left school at fourteen and then taught herself through reading. Aged seventeen she moved to Harare which she hated- she found it...
Doris Lessing – Biographical - NobelPrize.org
Never will I forget those stations, each crowded with raggedy hungry children, who had lost parents in the Civil War. It was possible for children not to have a mother, a father? More panic. And each station crowded with people and children who saw our dilapidated train as a promise of food and safety.
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. Much of her...
Doris Lessing - Novelist, Memoirist, Essayist - ThoughtCo
2017年6月4日 · Though she was encouraged to go to college, Doris Lessing dropped out of school at age 14, and took clerical and other jobs in Salisbury, South Rhodesia, until her marriage in 1939 to a civil servant. When she divorced in 1943, her children stayed with their father.