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Doris Lessing was born Doris May Taylor, on October 22, 1919 in Persia (now Iran) to British parents. ... (Hanford)
Lessing described “her childhood as an uneven mix of some pleasure and much pain.” Her mother was obsessed with her daughter being “proper,” and therefore sent Doris to a convent school. ... (Hanford)
Like many other woman writers from Africa, Lessing did not graduate high school, and became a “self-educated individual.” Lessing’s early readings included “Dickens, Scott, Stevenson, Kipling; later she discovered D. ... ”(Hanford)
The work that Lessing has written has been mostly autobiographical.
Approximate Word count = 458 Approximate Pages = 1.8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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