Doris Lessing gets under her own skin Reading the life of a literary icon

The Boston Globe;  November 13, 1994 ;   Gail Caldwell, Globe Staff;   787 words ......quarter-century-old copy of "The Golden Notebook." Lessing's 1962 novel changed the...arc of fractured brilliance, "The Golden Notebook" emerged as a classic treatise by...Rabbit, Run" or Bellow's "Herzog," "The Golden Notebook" heralded instead the idea that what...

The Golden Notebook

Literary Review of Canada;  December 1, 2007 ;   Fraser, Marian Botsford;   242 words ...The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing Since Doris Lessing...libraries. The key text is The Golden Notebook (1962). Even then it got ambivalent...dialogue). Reader, beware. The Golden Notebook is one of the most frustrating...

Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962.

The Women's Review of Books;  November 1, 1997 ;   Rose, Ellen Cronan;   787 words ......like the Martha Quest series and The Golden Notebook, I was intrigued by Under My Skin...reflects on the years out of which The Golden Notebook was born, she frequently raises provocative...Grass Is Singing, and 1962, when The Golden Notebook was published and London was entering...

An unusual feminist; Profile: Doris Lessing

The Independent - London;  August 18, 2001 ;   Natasha Walter;   787 words ......unusual kind. Her greatest work, The Golden Notebook, shows the power of the female imagination...her if she had known what a stir The Golden Notebook would cause when it was published...it was written," she replied. The Golden Notebook is now a landmark novel, a book that...

Under My Skin: Volume One of my Autobiography, to 1949.

The Nation;  November 7, 1994 ;   Leonard, John;   787 words ......because when I sat down to review The Golden Notebook in 1962, for Pacifica Radio in Berkeley...new way of seeing, embroidering her golden notebook from braids of red and yellow, black...compulsive washing of herself in The Golden Notebook, so that she won't smell of her own...

(book review)

O, The Oprah Magazine;  June 1, 2002 ;   Ephron, Nora;   98 words ...The Golden Notebook BY DORIS LESSING At an early point in this novel, Lessing's heroine...was a time when I believed that any modern woman had to read The Golden Notebook, but I'm no longer given to pronouncements that are quite so doctrinaire...

Nuclear Cassandra: prophecy in Doris Lessing's The Golden...

Papers on Language & Literature;  January 1, 2007 ;   Henstra, Sarah;   787 words ......explores precisely this question in The Golden Notebook (1962), a multi-layered, multi-voiced...many thematic preoccupations of The Golden Notebook and the socio-political crisis with...powerful intertext for my reading of The Golden Notebook, insofar as Wolf's novelization of...

Books: a book that changed me STEPHANIE DOWRICK on Doris Lessing's 'The...

The Independent - London;  May 3, 1998 ;   STEPHANIE DOWRICK;   357 words ...When did you first read it? I read The Golden Notebook in about 1970. I was then young, intensely curious about...questions. Why did it strike you so much? Reading The Golden Notebook was utterly revelatory. Here were women characters who...

Doris Lessing Reflects on World, Change

AP Online;  October 8, 2006 ;     787 words ......permanence?" The author of the classic "The Golden Notebook" and more than 40 other works, including...Storm." In 1962, she released "The Golden Notebook," her most famous and influential...herself has long denied that "The Golden Notebook" was written for the liberation of...

Doris Lessing, modest and committed, wins Nobel literature prize

The Hindustan Times;  October 11, 2007 ;     620 words ......series, like "Martha Quest", "The Golden Notebook" and "The Grass is Singing". Her most...published her best-known work, "The Golden Notebook", which has become a feminist classic...childhood to the publication of "The Golden Notebook". In 1999, she was appointed a Companion...

Books: When the revolution comes, we'll be out shoplifting

The Independent - London;  September 16, 2001 ;   James Hopkin;   787 words ......relations with the truth. Take The Golden Notebook (1962), for example, a complex but...some of the ideas and themes of The Golden Notebook, and while that novel was formally...As in the "Red" sections of The Golden Notebook, the Party - ironically represented...

Feminist metafiction and androcentric reading strategies: Angela Carter's...

CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  September 22, 1995 ;   Boehm, Beth A.;   787 words ......account of the critical reception of The Golden Notebook, one of the first contemporary feminist...original in their responses to The Golden Notebook reveals her disappointment that readers...fragmentation and disunity as flaws of The Golden Notebook. Ironically, the publication of ...

TIME BITES

The Spectator;  October 23, 2004 ;   Gardam, Jane;   787 words ......writes about a reissue of her own Golden Notebook, standing away from it, quizzing it...themselves to the common clay. 'In the Golden Notebook,' she says, 'I was writing myself...seems mellow. Yet ages ago, after the Golden Notebook, in Bayswater where brilliant young...

Celebrating 60 years of African literature.(BOOKS)

The Washington Times;  December 9, 2007 ;     787 words ......A half-century after she wrote The Golden Notebook, that magnum opus of feminist fiction...Violence' are still discernible [in 'The Golden Notebook']. The principle character of 'The Golden Notebook' is Anna Wulf, the author of a successful...

A Lessing learned

The Scotsman;  April 17, 1999 ;   Bella Bathurst;   787 words ......Singing, or her 1962 masterpiece, The Golden Notebook. But, much like Ian Banks, she interweaves...falsifying her own experience. The Golden Notebook portrayed women as neither martyrs...whatever their preoccupations are. The Golden Notebook got the most appalling reviews when...