In 1919, Virginia Woolf wrote, “The most inconclusive remarks upon modern English fiction can hardly avoid some mention of the Russian influence, and if the Russians are mentioned one runs the
While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook, she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transf
A specialist in contemporary women's writing, Rubenstein (literature, American U.) looks at the work of two British and six American women writers of different generations and ethnicities to explore t
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, ground-breaking in both narrative form and subject matter when it was first published in 1962, encompasses important political and social developments of the mid-t
