DL/A-Z//DOW - [Correspondence with Stephanie Dowrick]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//DOW
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Stephanie Dowrick]
Date/s
1984
Quantity & Format
3 Letters (typescript and MS)
Creator
Dowrick, StephanieCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
3 items, some highlighted. Discusses her novels with Lessing and asks for her opinion.
DL/A-Z//DOW/001 [from Stephanie Dowrick to Doris Lessing, 10/02/1984]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she (Dowrick) hopes Lessing enjoyed her novel Running. Asks Lessing to be "absolutely frank" with her. Mentions Bruce Hunter and Niki Honore. Writes that she is starting her new book, Intimacy and Solitude.
DL/A-Z//DOW/002 [from Doris Lessing to Stephanie Dowrick, 25/02/1984]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she has read Dowrick's book and describes it as "very vivid and alive". Discusses her opinion that it is a book that "most people have written", that it was "written to make a map of oneself". Mentions that perhaps she should set it aside and look at it again in "X years". Discusses sexual explicitness in this novel and others. References Richard Alther, Colette, and Jean Rhys.
DL/A-Z//DOW/001 [from Stephanie Dowrick to Doris Lessing, 10/02/1984]
Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she (Dowrick) hopes Lessing enjoyed her novel Running. Asks Lessing to be "absolutely frank" with her. Mentions Bruce Hunter and Niki Honore. Writes that she is starting her new book, Intimacy and Solitude.
DL/A-Z//DOW/002 [from Doris Lessing to Stephanie Dowrick, 25/02/1984]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she has read Dowrick's book and describes it as "very vivid and alive". Discusses her opinion that it is a book that "most people have written", that it was "written to make a map of oneself". Mentions that perhaps she should set it aside and look at it again in "X years". Discusses sexual explicitness in this novel and others. References Richard Alther, Colette, and Jean Rhys.
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
- DL/A-Z//DOW - [Correspondence with Stephanie Dowrick]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit