Walking in the Shade (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1949-1962
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Doris Lessing, Peter, “Jack,”, Clancy Sigal, Mrs. Sussman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1950’s, Africa or Africans, Communism or communists, Politics, Islam, Novelists, Women’s issues, Women, London, Mysticism, Houses, mansions, or manors
- Locales: London, England
Doris Lessing, born in 1919 in Persia (present-day Iran), grew up in Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) with immigrant white-settler parents, spent the war years in Salisbury protesting in leftist groups the conditions of black people, and there wrote her first novel. The first volume of her autobiography, Under My Skin (1994), chronicles her life until she left Africa for London. This second volume covers the years 1949-1962, from her arrival in London with no resources but the unpublished manuscript of The Grass Is Singing (eventually published in 1950) to the...
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