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Her breakthrough work, The Golden Notebook, was written in 1962. Her first novel, The Grass Is Singing, was published in 1950. She moved to London with her youngest son in 1949. I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother."īecause of her campaigning against nuclear arms and South African apartheid, Lessing was banned from that country and from Rhodesia for many years. I felt I wasn't the best person to bring them up. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. She later said that at the time she thought she had no choice: "For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. When she fled to London to pursue her writing career and communist ideals, she left two toddlers with their father in South Africa (another, from her second marriage, went with her).
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Gottfried Lessing later became the East German ambassador to Uganda, and was murdered in the 1979 rebellion against Idi Amin Dada. They were married shortly after she joined the group, and had a child together (Peter), before the marriage also ended in divorce in 1949. It was here that she met her second husband, Gottfried Lessing. In 1937, Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator, and she soon married her first husband, Frank Wisdom, with whom she had two children (John and Jean), before the marriage ended in 1943.įollowing her divorce, Lessing was drawn to the community of the Left Book Club, a communist book club which she had joined the year before. She started reading material on politics and sociology that her employer gave her, and began writing around this time. She left school aged 14, and thereafter was self-educated she left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid. Lessing was educated at the Dominican Convent High School, a Roman Catholic convent all-girls school in Salisbury (now Harare). The farm was not successful and failed to deliver the wealth the Taylers had expected. Lessing's mother attempted to lead an Edwardian lifestyle amidst the rough environment, which would have been easy had the family been wealthy in reality, such a lifestyle was not feasible. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1925 to farm maize, when her father purchased around one thousand acres of bush. Alfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah, Iran, in order to take up a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia and it was here that Doris was born in 1919.
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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 where he was recovering from his amputation. Lessing was born in Iran, then known as Persia, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), who were both English and of British nationality. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature. Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny". Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos. Doris May Lessing CH (née Tayler born 22 October 1919) is a British writer.