To Room Nineteen | Critical Overview
“To Room Nineteen” was first published in A Man and Two Women, a collection of Lessing’s short stories that helped cement her reputation as an important short story writer. Most reviewers praised Lessing for her literary artistry. Paul Pickrel in Harper wrote that the “best of her work [in the collection] is equal to the best short stories now being written in English.”
Dorothy Brewster, in her article on the author in Twayne’s English Authors Series Online, applauds Lessing’s focus on human relationships “with no particular significance in...
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