The Golden Notebook (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris May Taylor
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social criticism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1950’s
- Setting: London, England
- Principal Characters: Anna Wulf, Molly Jacobs, Richard Portmain, Tommy Jacobs, Marion 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
Form and Content
The Golden Notebook is divided into six sections that interlock and interact with one another to form a complex meaning. The first section, called “Free Women,” is a conventional novel telling the story of Anna Wulf’s and Molly Jacobs’ lives in 1957 London. Anna and Molly are old friends who come together to talk about their experiences with men, politics, and life as “free women,” women who are not living with a man. Anna is becoming bored with their talks and begins to suspect that their complaints about how they are treated by men...
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