1/14/2023 0 Comments The grass is singing characters![]() In 1938 she moved to Salisbury, took an office job, and began writing. At that point her self-education began, mostly with the reading of the major nineteenth-century Russian, French, and English novelists. She attended convent school until an eye problem forced her to drop out at age 14. Lessing's childhood was spent in the hills near the farm. In 1925 the Taylor family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to a farm 100 miles west of Mozambique. The daughter of an English banker, Doris May Taylor was born in Kermanshah, Persia, on October 22, 1919. Her characters have experienced her experiences they know what she knows. Lessing's fiction closely parallels her own life. And like their creator, Lessing's heroines populate two geographies: Southern Africa and England. Leftist, fiercely independent, feminist, her characters, like Lessing herself, are social critics rebelling against the cultural restrictions of their societies. ![]() The heroines who populate the work of Doris Lessing belong to the avant garde of their day.
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