Was published in 1956 by the East German publisher Die Tribüne. He was the model for Anton Hesse in A Ripple from the Storm and Willi Rodde in The Golden Notebook (1962).Ī collection of Lessing's stories, entitled Der Zauber ist nicht verkäuflich, Gottfried Anton Lessing, a member of the inner circle of the RhodesianĬommunist Party. In 1943 Lessing married the German political activist The first four of which were set in a fictional African colony, This period of her life is reflected in A Ripple from the Storm (1958) of the five-volume sequence Children of the Violence, For some years Lessing was anĪctive member of the Communist Party, which was formally banned in Nineteen she married Frank Wisdom, a civil servant they had twoĬhildren. Then earned her living as a nursemaid, telephone operator and clerk. She left the Girls' High School at the age of fourteen and
Harare), where the Roman Catholic teachers tried to convert her from In 1926 Lessing was sent to a convent school in Salisbury (now Were miles away and there was no real roads between the farms. Her childhood was lonely, the nearest neighbours Lomagundi area of Southern Rhosesia, where Lessing grew up with her Their life savings a maize farm in the district of Banket, in the Leg and health in World War I, was a bank clerk with the Imperial Bank
Her English-born father, Alfred Cook Tayler, who had lost his The sun in England should be feminine, as it is inĭoris Lessing spent her early childhood in Kermanshah, Persia (now
Swollen, misshapen, watery ghost of a thing peering behindĬhimney-pots. Instead of blazing down direct, a hand's span from centre, it wouldĪppear on a slant and in the wrong place, at eight o'clock position, a Sun went down at four in the middle of an active afternoon, filling aĬold, damp, remote sky with false pathos.
"When I was first in England I wasĭisturbed all the time in my deepest sense of probability because the Up and was educated in Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia). Since 1949, she lived inĮngland but she was also considered an African writer because she grew Sexes, individuals in search of wholeness, and the dangers of Work are feminism (see also Simone de Beauvoir,īetty Friedman, Germaine Greer, Marilyn French), the battle of the Stories are largely concerned with people caught in the social and Persian (Iranian)-born British writer, whose novels and short A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Zĭoris (May) Lessing (1919-2013 ) original surname Tayler
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