The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, Vol.This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, Vol.The Wolf People - INPOPA Anthology 2002 (poems by Lessing, Robert Twigger and T.H.Each His Own Wilderness (three plays, 1959).Playing the Game ( graphic novel illustrated by Charlie Adlard, 1995).The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (music by Philip Glass, 1997).The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (opera)|The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (music by Philip Glass, 1986).The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (1983).The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (1982).The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980).The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog (2005) – sequel to Mara and Dann.Ben, in the World (2000) – sequel to The Fifth Child.The Diary of a Good Neighbour (as Jane Somers, 1983).Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971).Companion of Literature of the Royal Society of Literature (2000).Order of the Companions of Honour (1999).James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography (1995).Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1981).Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at her home in London, aged 94. Death ĭuring the late 1990s, Lessing suffered a stroke which stopped her from travelling during her later years and focused her mind on death. Other institutions, including the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, hold smaller collections. Lessing kept none of the originals of her early manuscripts. There are 45 boxes of Lessing's materials at the Ransom Center that contain nearly all of her available manuscripts and typescripts up to 1999. The largest collection of Lessing's writing is at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, at the University of Texas at Austin. She would have been very frustrated like her mother had been because it was diificult for an intelligent woman to spend all of her time with young children. She felt she had done the best she could and that she was not the best person to raise the children. She later said that she thought she had no choice at that time.
Peter, from her second marriage, went with her. Lessing left two young children with their father in South Africa. She went to London to pursue her writing career and communist ideals. He was murdered in the 1979 rebellion against Idi Amin Dada. Gottfried Lessing later became the East German ambassador to Uganda. They married soon after she joined the group, and had a child named Peter. She met her second husband, Gottfried Lessing there. She had joined this communist book club the year before. Diski lived with Lessing for four years in London.Īfter her divorce, Lessing became more involved with members of the Left Book Club. She took care of future author Jenny Diski after her parents abused her. They had two children (John and Jean), before the marriage ended in 1943. She soon married her first husband, Frank Wisdom. In 1937, Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator. She started reading about politics and sociology and began writing around this time. She left home at 15 and worked as a nursemaid. She left school aged 14, and taught herself after that. It was a Roman Catholic convent school for girls.
Lessing studied at the Dominican Convent High School in Salisbury (now Harare). Later, the family moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now called Zimbabwe) in 1925 to farm maize. He started a job there as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia. Īlfred Tayler and his wife moved to Kermanshah, Iran. Her mother, Emily Maude Tayler (maiden name McVeagh), was a nurse. Her father, Captain Alfred Tayler, was a patient because he had lost his leg in World War I. Lessing was born in Iran on 22 October 1919.
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