DL/A-Z//TET - [Correspondence with Betty McGinnis Tetlow]
Reference code
DL/A-Z//TET
Level of description
File
Title
[Correspondence with Betty McGinnis Tetlow]
Date/s
1976-1987
Quantity & Format
6 Letters (typescript and MS)
Creator
Tetlow, Betty McGinnisCreator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
6 items, some highlighted. Correspondence between Betty McGinnis Tetlow (née Fradkin) and Doris Lessing, regarding Olive Schreiner. Discusses Sufism in item 004.
DL/A-Z//TET/001 [from Betty McGinnis Tetlow to Doris Lessing, 19/10/1976]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she is researching Olive Schreiner with a view to write her biography. Discusses Lessing's afterword to African Farm, pleased that "a serious writer took her [Schreiner] seriously". Talks of Schreiner's letters, and references what Lessing had said in the afterword about "letters reflecting the people to whom they are written". Asks Lessing if she has a copy of the speech she gave at Schreiner's Centenary.
DL/A-Z//TET/002 [from Doris Lessing to Betty McGinnis Tetlow, 16/12/1976]
Letter, 1 leaf recto and verso, typed.
Discusses Victorian women and "neurosis and psycho-somatic illness". Writes of Schreiner's romantic life, and how "some lives are maps for other people to learn from, and hers [Schreiner's] was one".
DL/A-Z//TET/001 [from Betty McGinnis Tetlow to Doris Lessing, 19/10/1976]
Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Writes that she is researching Olive Schreiner with a view to write her biography. Discusses Lessing's afterword to African Farm, pleased that "a serious writer took her [Schreiner] seriously". Talks of Schreiner's letters, and references what Lessing had said in the afterword about "letters reflecting the people to whom they are written". Asks Lessing if she has a copy of the speech she gave at Schreiner's Centenary.
DL/A-Z//TET/002 [from Doris Lessing to Betty McGinnis Tetlow, 16/12/1976]
Letter, 1 leaf recto and verso, typed.
Discusses Victorian women and "neurosis and psycho-somatic illness". Writes of Schreiner's romantic life, and how "some lives are maps for other people to learn from, and hers [Schreiner's] was one".
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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//TET - [Correspondence with Betty McGinnis Tetlow]
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DL/A-Z - [A-Z Correspondence of Doris Lessing]
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DL/2008 - Doris Lessing Archive 2008 deposit