Notes 1. Interview with Roy Newquist, Counterpoint (Chicago, Ill.; Rand McNally, 1964), reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, ed. Paul Schlueter (New York: Vintage Books, 1975), pp. 45-60. 2. Doris Lessing, 'My Father', Sunday Telegraph, 1 September 1963, reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, pp. 83-93. 3. Ibid., p. 91. Doris Lessing writes in more detail about her mother in 'Impertinent Daughters', Granta, 14 (Winter 1984), 51-68, and 'Autobiography (Part Two): My Mother's Life', Granta, 17 (Autumn 1985), 227-38. 4. Lorna Sage, Doris Lessing (London: Methuen, 1983), p. 22. 5. Doris Lessing, Afterword to The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (New York: Fawcett World Library, 1968), reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, pp. 97-120. 6. 'A Conversation with Doris Lessing (1966)' (interview with Florence Howe), Contemporary Literature, 14, no. 4 (Autumn 1973), reprinted in Doris Lessing: Critical Studies, ed. Annis Pratt and L. S. Dembo (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1974), pp. 1-19. 7. 'Doris Lessing at Stony Brook: An interview by Jonah Raskin', first published in New American Review, 8 (New York: New American Library, 1970). Reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, pp. 61-76. 8. Elizabeth Wilson, 'Yesterday's Heroines: On Rereading Lessing and de Beau voir', from Notebooks/memoirs/archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing, ed. Jenny Taylor (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982), pp. 57-73. 9. 'An Evening at 92nd StreetY', Roberta Rubenstein, 'Reports: Lessing in North America, March-April, 1984; Doris Lessing Newsletter, 8, no. 2 (Fall 1984) 6. 10. Doris Lessing talking at the University of East Anglia, UK, 1980. (Unpublished transcript.) 11. Doris Lessing in a letter to Roberta Rubenstein, quoted in her book The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979), p. 231. 12. Ibid., p. 197. 13. Ibid., p. 198. 14.!dries Shah, The Sufis (New York: Doubleday, 1964), p. 61. 15. Doris Lessing, quoted by Nancy Shields Hardin in 'Doris Lessing and the Sufi Way', from Doris Lessing: Critical Studies, p. 153. 16. Especially the writers who gave the following papers at the Short Story Symposium at the College of St Paul and St Mary, Cheltenham, UK, in 137
138 Notes September 1986: Ellen Cronan Rose, 'Crystals, Fragments and Golden Wholes: Short Stories in The Golden Notebook'; Claire Sprague, '"A Man and Two Women" and The Golden Notebook'; Virginia Tiger, 'Taking Hands and Dancing in (Dis) Unity'. 17. Anthony Chennells, 'Doris Lessing: Rhodesian Novelist', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9, no. 2 (Falll985), 3-7. 18. Doris Lessing, 'A Deep Darkness: A Review of Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, New Statesman, 15 January 1971, pp. 87-8. Reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, pp. 147-52. 19. 'The Persistent Personal Voice: Lessing on Rhodesia and Marxism', interview with Eve Bertelsen, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9, no. 2 (Fall 1985), 8, 9, 10, 18. 20. C. J. Driver, 'Doris Lessing', an interview in The New Review, 1, no. 8 (November 1974), 17-23. 21. Doris Lessing, 'The Small Personal Voice' in Declarations, ed. T. Maschler (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1957), reprinted in A Small Personal Voice, pp. 3-21. 22. Nicole Ward Jouve, 'Of Mud and Other Matter - The Children of Violence' in Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives, pp. 75-134. 23. 'A Conversation with Doris Lessing' (interview with Florence Howe), Doris Lessing: Critical Studies, p. 8. 24. Quoted by ldries Shah in The Wcry of the Sufi (London: Cape, 1968; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974), p. 106. 25. Ibid., p. 20. 26. Barbara Hill Rigney, Madness and Sexual Politics in the Feminist Novel: Studies in Bronte, Woolf, Lessing and Atwood (Madison, Wise.: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1978), p. 77. 27. Lorna Sage, Doris Lessing, pp. 67-8. 28. 'A Conversation with Doris Lessing' (interview with Florence Howe), Doris Lessing: Critical Studies, p. 11. 29. C. J. Driver, 'Doris Lessing', interview in The New Review, 1, no. 8 (November 1974), 22. 30. Marion Vlastos, 'Doris Lessing and R. D. Laing: Psychopolitics and Prophecy', PMLA, 91, no. 2 (March 1976), 245-58, and Roberta Rubenstein in The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing, p. 179. 31. Doris Lessing, interview with Roy Newquist, in A Small Personal Voice, p. 59. 32. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981). This is a very useful book to read alongside Doris Lessing's later novels since it describes similar developments in human transformation. 33. Doris Lessing, interview with Susan Stamberg, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 8, no. 2 (Fall, 1984), 15. 34. Quotation from Doris Lessing in blurb of The Memoirs of a Survivor. 35. Roberta Rubenstein, The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing, p. 240. 36. See Claire Sprague, 'Naming in Marriages: Another View', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 7, no. 1 (Summer 1983), 13. 37. Lorna Sage, 'The Available Space', in Women's Writing: A Challenge to Theory, ed. Moira Monteith (Brighton: The Harvester Press, 1986), pp. 15-33.
Notes 139 38. Doris Lessing, interview with Christopher Bigsby in The Radical Imagination and the Liberal Tradition: Interviews with English and American Novelists by Heide Ziegler and Christopher Bigsby (London: Junction Books, 1982), pp. 188--208. 39. Ibid. 40. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (London: Chatto and Windus, 1913). Quoted by Doris Lessing in the Afterword to The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, pp. 162-90. 41. Judith Stitzel, review of Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Voryen Empire in Doris Lessing Newsletter, 7, no. 2 (Winter 1983), 9-10 in which she quotes from Lesley Hazelton, 'Doris Lessing on Feminism, Communism and "space fiction"', The New York Times Magazine, 25July 1982, p. 29. 42. See, for example, Judith Stitzel's review (above), p. 10. 43. Doris Lessing, 'Sufic Searches', The Literary Review, no. 49 Quly 1982), 10-11. 44. Jonathan Yardley, 'Lessing is More: An "Unknown" author and the Success Syndrome', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9, no. 1 (Spring 1985), 3, 14. 45. Ellen Goodman, 'The Doris Lessing Hoax', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9, no. 1 (Spring 1985), 3. 46. Ibid. 47. 'Doris Lessing Talks about Jane Somers', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 10, no. 1 (Spring 1986), 3, 4, 5, 14. 48. Carey Kaplan, review of The Diaries of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 10, no. 1 (Spring 1986), 4. 49. 'Doris Lessing Talks about Jane Somers', Doris Lessing Newsletter, 10, no. 1 (Spring 1986). 50. Ibid. 51. Carey Kaplan, review of The Diaries of Jane Somers, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 10, no. 1 (Spring 1986). 52. Lorna Sage, Doris Lessing, p. 56. 53. Doris Lessing, 'The Temptation of Jack Orkney' from The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories (London: Cape, 1972; Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1975).
Select Bibliography NOTES ON EDITIONS In this book references are to the Panther (Granada Publishing) editions of Doris Lessing's novels, except for the following: Retreat to Inrwcence, Michael Joseph; The Summer Before the Dark, Penguin Books; The Memoirs of a Survivor, Picador (Pan Books); The Diaries of Jane Somers, Penguin Books and The Good Terrorist, Jonathan Cape. Place of publication is London unless otherwise indicated. WORKS BY DORIS LESSING Novels The Grass is Singing (1950; New York, 1950) Children of Violence Martha Quest (1952; New York, 1964) A Proper Marriage (1954; New York, 1964) A Ripple from the Storm (1958; New York, 1966) Landlocked (1965; New York, 1966) The Four-Gated Ciry (1969; New York, 1969) Retreat to Innocence (1956; New York, 1957) The Golden Notebook (1962; New York, 1962) Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971; New York, 1971) The Summer before the Dark (1973; New York, 1973) The Memoirs of a Survivor (1974; New York, 1975) Canopus in Argos: Archives Re: Colonized Planet 5, Shikasta ( 1979; New York, 1979) The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1980); New York, 1980) The Sirian Experiments ( 1981, New York, 1981) The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ( 1982; New York, 1982) Documents relating to The Sentimental Agents in the Voryen Empire (1983; New York, 1983) The Diaries of jane Somers (1984; New York 1983, 1984) The Good Terrorist (1985; New York, 1985) 140
Select Bibliography 141 Short Stories This Was the Old Chief's Country (1951; New York, 1952) Five (1953) The Habit of Loving (1957; New York, 1957) A Man and Two Women (1963; New York, 1963) African Stories (1964; New York, 1965) The Story of a Non-Marrying Man and Other Stories (1972) Published as The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories (New York, 1972) This Was the Old Chief's Country: Collected African Stories, vol. l (1973) The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories, vol. 2 ( 1973) Two Room Nineteen: Collected Stories, vol. l (1978) The Temptation of Jack Orkney: Collected Stories, vol. 2 (1978) Plays Each His Own Wilderness. In New English Dramatists: Three Plays, ed. E. Martin Browne (1959) Play With a Tiger ( 1962). Also in Plays by and About Women, ed. Victoria Sullivan and James Hatch (New York, 1973) Poems Fourteen Poems (Northwood, Middlesex, 1959) Nonfiction Going Home (1957, revised edn, Panther, 1968; New York, 1968) In Pursuit of the English: A Documentary (1960; New York, 1961) Particularly Cats (1967; New York, 1967) The Wind Blows Away our Words (Pan Books, 1987) Prisons We Choose to Live Inside (Cape, 1987) Selected Interviews Eve Bertelsen, 'The Persistent Personal Voice: Lessing on Rhodesia and Marxism', excerpts from an interview with Doris Lessing, London, 9 January 1984. Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9, no. 2 (Fall 1985) Christopher Bigsby, interview with Doris Lessing in The Radical Imagination and the Liberal Tradition by Heide Ziegler and Christopher Bigsby ( 1982) C. J. Driver, 'Doris Lessing', an interview in The New Review, 1, no. 8 (November 1974), 17-23 Schleuter, Paul (ed.), A Small Personal Voice (New York, 1975). Contains interviews with Doris Lessing by Florence Howe, Roy Newquist and Jonah Raskin Selected Criticism Draine, Betsy, Substance Under Pressure: Artistic Coherence and Evolving Form in the Novels of Doris Lessing (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1983) Fishburn, Katherine, The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing: A Study in Narrative Technique (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985)
142 Select Bibliography Pratt, A. and Dembo, L. S. (eds), Doris Lessing: Critical Studies (Madison: Univ. ofwisconsin Press, 1974) Rubenstein, Roberta, The Novelistic Vision of Doris Lessing: Breaking the Forms of Consciousness (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1979) Sage, Lorna, Doris Lessing (London: Methuen, 1983) Singleton, Mary Ann, The City and the Veld: The Fiction of Doris Lessing (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1977) Sprague, Claire and Tiger, Virginia (eds), Critical Essays on Doris Lessing (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1986) Taylor, Jenny, (ed.), Notebooks/Memoirs/Archives: Reading and Rereading Doris Lessing ( 1982) Thorpe, Michael, Doris Lessing's Africa (London: Evans, 1978) Journal Doris Lessing Newsletter, ed. Claire Sprague and published by the Brooklyn College Press, The City University of New York.
Index Aquarian Conspiracy, The 83 Blake, William 78 Blixen, Karen 19 Chennells, Anthony 18 Daylight 6 Drabble, Margaret 119 Driver, C. J. 76 Eliade, Mircea 78 Ferguson, Marilyn 83 Goodman, Ellen 119 Heinemann, Margot 6 Henty, G. A 20 Howe, Florence 3, 48 Jane Eyre 57 Jung, Carl 10-11, 12, 13, 26, 53, 103 Kaplan, Carey 120, 125 Khayyam, Omar 56 Laing, R. D. 12, 13, 54, 57, 76, 77-8, 93 Lawrence, D. H. 42 Lessing, Doris WORKS Briefing for a Descent into Hell 10, 13, 15--16, 57, 7tHJ3, 99, 101, 133 Canopus in Argos: Archives 3, 5, 7, 10, 15, 81,98--117, 118, 119, 120, 129, 133, 134 Children of Violence, The 9, 10, 11, 19, 24, 35--60, 61, 67, 70, 75, 79, 84, 91, 129 Collected African Stories, Vol. I 19, 29-33 Diary of a Good Neighbour, The 16, 118--22, 123, 125 Diaries iif jane Somers, The 10, 118--26, 134 Each His own Wilderness 16, 125 Four-Gated City, The 5, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 35, 37, 38, 40, 44, 54-60, 76, 77, 80, 86, 89, 91, 93, 99, 101, 102, 120, 133 Going Home 7, 17-18, 19 Golden Notebook, The 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, 24, 35, 51, 55, 57, 61-75, 76, 78, 80, 82, 84, 89, 94, 104, 105, 114, 117, 132, 133, 134, 135 Good Terrorist, The 7, 10, 115, 116, 126-30 Grass is Singing, The 2, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21-8, 134 If the Old Could... 118, 123-6, 127 In Pursuit iif the English 4, 46, 55, 93 Landlocked 14, 35, 37, 43, 51-4, 61, 76, 89, 106, 133 Making of the Representative for Planet 8, The 4, 108, 111-14, 120 Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, The 9, 103--8, 109 143
144 Index Lessing, Doris - continued WORKS- continued Martha Quest 35, 37, 38-43, 46, 55, 91, 93, 129 Merrwirs of a Survivor, The 9, 10, 11, 16, 38, 76, 89--97, 98, 105, 112, 114, 117, 133, 135 Play with a Tiger 16 Proper Marriage, A 35, 37, 43-6 Retreat to Innocence 7, 4fH3, 122 Ripple from the Storm, A 5, 7, 35, 37, 46, 47, 48-51, 61 Sentimental Agents in the Voryen Empire, The 114-16 Shikasta 98-103, 104, 108, 109, 114 Sirian Experiments, The 104, 108-11 Summer Before the Dark The 9 10 11, 16, 47, 76, 8~9, 119,, Wind Blows Away our Words, The 8 Lessing, Gottfried 1 McVeigh, Maud 1 Myths, Dreams and Mysteries 78 New Reasoner 7 Out of Africa 19 Politics of Experience, The 13, 57, 77-8, 93 Rhodes, Cecil 18 Rigney, Barbara Hill 57 Rubenstein, Roberta 13, 77 Sage, Lorna 2, 59, 132 Schreiner, Olive 2 Shah, ldries 13, 116 Spark, Muriel 122 Stamberg, Susan 86 Sterne, Laurence 131 Stitzel, Judith 115 Story of an African Farm, The 2 Tayler, Alfred 1, 3 Tristram Shant!J 131 Vlastos, Marian 77 Wilson, Angus 119 Wilson, Elizabeth 8 Wisdom, Frank 1 Wordsworth, William 81 Yardley, Jonathan 119