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    Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived...
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    with the exact date of its dissolution not being known. Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing author of various works including “The Grass is Singing,” is the most...
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  • Gottfried Anton Nicolai Lessing (14 December 1914 – 11 April 1979) was a German lawyer, political activist, and diplomat. Lessing was born in Saint Petersburg...
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    2007 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British novelist Doris Lessing (1919–2013) as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism...
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  • Through the Tunnel (category Short stories by Doris Lessing)
    "Through the Tunnel" is a short story written by British author Doris Lessing, originally published in the American weekly magazine The New Yorker in...
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  • The Grass Is Singing (category Novels by Doris Lessing)
    Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in southern Africa...
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  • great-great-great-great-great-nephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781). Lessing is also the surname of: Doris Lessing (1919–2013), British novelist and the 2007...
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  • to compartmentalize oneself within one's own separately colored box. Doris Lessing considered that the essential theme of The Golden Notebook was "that...
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  • the blackmailer control his/her decisions and behavior, lost in what Doris Lessing described as "a sort of psychological fog". Emotional blackmail is a...
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  • childhood, but was taken in and mentored by the novelist Doris Lessing; she lived in Lessing's house for four years. Diski was educated at University College...
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