Doris lessing autobiography book to read first

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.

In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

This autobiography feels very honest by the Nobel Laureate author, Doris Lessing.

This autobiography feels very honest by the Nobel Laureate author, Doris Lessing.

I've read The Grass is Singing, Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, her memoir Going Home, and several of her stories.

This first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography is an intimate soul searching of her early life into adulthood.

Ages ago I promised a review of Martha Quest, and in the meantime, I read Lessing's first volume of autobiography, Under My Skin.

This Was the Old Chief's Country (1951); The Sun Between Their Feet (1973) · Martha Quest (1952) · Re: Colonised Planet 5.

Doris's mother adapted to the rough life in the settlement, energetically trying to reproduce what was, in her view, a civilized, Edwardian life among savages; but her father did not, and the thousand-odd acres of bush he had bought failed to yield the promised wealth.

Lessing has described her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain.

The natural world, which she explored with her brother, Harry, was one retreat from an otherwise miserable existence. Her mother, obsessed with raising a proper daughter, enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home, then installed Doris in a conven