The Golden Notebook (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris May Taylor
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Summer, 1957; the early 1940’s; and 1950-1956 as the past recorded in notebooks
- Setting: London, England
- 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
Characters Discussed
Anna Freeman Wulf, the protagonist, a sensitive, highly intelligent woman, a writer who labels herself as a “minor talent.” Neat, delicate, and prim, she is small, thin, and dark, “with large black always-on-guard eyes,” a “pointed white face,” delicate hands, and “a fluffy haircut.” She must force herself to take the lead, as she is by nature shy and self-effacing. She lives on the royalties of a commercially successful novel about her 1940’s experiences in southern Rhodesia and is compiling four notebooks to exorcise her personal demons...
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