DL/A-Z//BOOKB - [Correspondence with Svetlana Bookbinder]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//BOOKB
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Svetlana Bookbinder]
Date/s
19/10/1984-13/07/2018
Quantity & Format
2 Letters (typescript)
Creator
Bookbinder, Svetlana
Scope and content
001 is a 1984 letter from Doris Lessing to Svetlana Bookbinder. She refers to payment for the Russian lessons Bookbinder was giving Lessing. She mentions that she sent her draft for The Good Terrorist to her publishers on the day of the IRA Brighton bomb. Mentions author Simon Cosgrove, then working as a minicab driver.
002 is a 2018 letter from Svetlana Bookbinder to Justine Mann of the British Archive of Creative Writing. She contextualises the contents of her Lessing letter for researchers. She describes the conditions of Lessing's Russian classes, some of which were held in the attic of historian Francis Carsten's house. Mentions that Lessing frequently complained about Soviet copyright infringement.
002 is a 2018 letter from Svetlana Bookbinder to Justine Mann of the British Archive of Creative Writing. She contextualises the contents of her Lessing letter for researchers. She describes the conditions of Lessing's Russian classes, some of which were held in the attic of historian Francis Carsten's house. Mentions that Lessing frequently complained about Soviet copyright infringement.
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DL - Doris Lessing Archive
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//BOOKB - [Correspondence with Svetlana Bookbinder]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit