The Golden Notebook (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1940’s, 1950-1956, and the summer of 1957
- Setting: London and South Central Africa
- Principal Characters: Anna Freeman Wulf, Molly Jacobs, Tommy Jacobs, Ella, Saul Green
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Mothers, Parents and children, Intellectuals, Communism or communists, Politics, Socialism, Love or romance, Gender roles, Self, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, Friendship, Writing, Novelists, Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Women, Creative process, London, Lifestyles
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
A woman writer struggling toward living an authentic life in the modern world is the focus of action for this complex novel. As the novel opens, Anna Freeman Wulf has written a commercially successful novel based on her experiences as a young woman during World War II in South Central Africa, in a country called Southern Rhodesia. Now living in London on the royalties from this novel, Anna cares for her thirteen-year-old daughter, Janet. In her role as mother, Anna finds emotional stability and meaning; some of the best scenes in the book involve Anna and her...
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