5/25/2023 0 Comments The golden notebook 1962Dissatisfied, she soon left her new family to spend her free time in discussion with the Left Book Club, where she met her next husband, the German communist exile Gottfried Lessing. After pursuing unfruitful relationships out of her self-described “fever of erotic longing,” Lessing married at 19 and had two children. During this time, she published a few stories in colonial magazines, and wrote and destroyed two novel manuscripts. Lessing escaped her miserable home to become a nursemaid and telephone operator. She went to a girls’ school in the capital of Salisbury (now Harare) until dropping out at age 13-she never returned to school, but she pursued her education independently, reading extensively during her teen years. Born in what is now Iran to a British imperial clerk and the nurse who cared for him after he lost a leg in World War I, Doris Lessing grew up on a farm in the colony of Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe.
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