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Essay Archive - Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
Doris Lessing's Life and Her Writings
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in 1919. She grew up in
Rhodesia after moving there when she was only five years old. Lessing has
proven herself as one of the most outspoken and controversial writers of
her time. She is not afraid to touch on subjects that express her
unaccepted views. She is a feminist and has many of her female characters
play as a heroine defeating what most women are afraid to conquer,
inferiority (Scott-Kilvert,184). She writes in what she calls straight,
broad and direct.
Lessing, i....
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