DL/PRESS - [Press cuttings]

DL/PRESS

Series

[Press cuttings]

1976-2002

1 box Press cuttings

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

Contains press cuttings and articles by or about Doris Lessing; press cuttings on books and writing; and miscellaneous press cuttings and articles.

Press cuttings and articles by or about Doris Lessing:

My first book, article by DL, 1981
Doris Lessing on feminism, communism and ‘space fiction’, by Lesley Hazelton, New York Times Magazine, 25/7/1982 (includes correspondence)
The Good Doris Lessing, by Margaret Drabble, [1986?]
An Englishwoman abroad, The Independent, 16/3/1987 (photocopy)
DL’s 68th birthday, The Independent, 22/10/1987 (includes photograph)
Quite cheerfully out of her world, Ham and High, 4/11/1988 (re: opera of The Making of the representative for Planet 8)
My Week [in Texas], The Independent, 1988
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, 1989
A childhood: Doris Lessing, by Ray Connolly, The Times Saturday Review, 17/11/1990
Erica Jong nominates Doris Lessing, Washington Post, Book World, 5/12/1993 (Nobel prize for Literature)
Strange encounters in the highlands of Zimbabwe, Natal Witness, 15/9/1999 (2 copies)
Doris Lessing by Lorna Sage, n.d. (chapter from an unidentified book)
The barbarians can read – they just don’t bother, Richard Hoggart & DL, n.d.
Books for the 21st century (reviews the Fifth Child), Canberra Times, 2000
I haven’t changed one bit, DL, The Sunday Telegraph, 19/11/2000
Animal instincts: Doris Lessing revels in a smouldering allegory of sexuality and power in D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox, n.d.
Out of Africa: … the most significant books to have come out of Africa, TLS, 17/8/2001
Lessing laments slaying of the publisher’s dragon, Times Online, 28/10/2002

Press cuttings on books and writing:

Snaps (miscellaneous writings), 1991
Philip Larkin’s will, [198-?]
Prizes of patronage: how writers survive, Sunday Times, 14/2/1982
Books that truly did furnish our minds, The Observer, 28/7/1985 (Penguin books)
[American takeovers of English publishers], Sunday Times and Observer, 1987
Contemporary slang, 1989
Animal passions: Angela Carter’s budgerigars, Telegraph Weekend Magazine, 1989
Nicholas Ashford: obituary, The Independent, 12/2/1990
Better beware of being Barbered, The Independent, 1991 (interviews)
The miracle worker, San Francisco Review, 10/2/1991 (literary lectures)
Publishers put critic on fiction list, 1992? (re: publishing industry & Michael Holroyd)
Making a literary lunge into a new millenium, New York Times, 21/2/1992
Authors throw the book at their publishers, The Sunday Times, 7/6/1992
A disneyland for writers, The Guardian, 11/6/1992
Bringing culture out of bondage, The Guardian, 9/1/1993 (re: Southern African writers)
Britain’s new literary lions fail to raise a roar, Sunday Times, 10/1/1993 (re: writers 1983-1993)
The very special agents, Evening Standard, 19/8/1993 (literary agents)
Walter Allen (obituary), The Independent, 2/3/1995
Why books are so full of mistakes, The Sunday Telegraph, 28/5/1995
A layman’s guide to being Wylie, The Independent on Sunday, 13/4/1997 (re: Andrew Wylie, publisher)

Miscellaneous press cuttings and articles:

Rules to identify a typical cult, by the Americans’ Citizens Freedom Foundation, n.d.
The personality of Oliver Cromwell, by Desmond Henry [19--?]
Take as directed, Ron Jones (re: the ease at which students can be indoctrinated), The CoEvolution Quarterly, 1976
Playing to the galleries, [198-?], (London’s art dealers)
Direct action, [ 198-?], (artistic directors)
Lincoln at Gettysburg, [198-?]
The sexual revolution and the manner of naming, Legal Briefs, 1981 (re: naming of children)
Women in the World: an international atlas. Pluto Press, (photocopy), 1986
Big ape linked to early man, Vancouver Sun, 2/3/1987
Harry Mulisch’s assault on World War II, International Herald Tribune, 14/5/1987
Myth of CND logo, The Independent, 4/5/1988 (nuclear disarmament)
Springtime for Paris, The Guardian, 10/8/1989 (re: the film: 1871)
Ever-increasing circles of bewilderment, 1990 (re: crop circles)
Lenin’s little boardroom revolution, by William Rees-Mogg, The Independent, 12/2/1990
Too damn good for the lot of them, Daily Mail, 23/11/1990 (re: Margaret Thatcher)
Some women confine themselves to the nursery pool of life, The Independent, 20/12/1990
Sir David Piper: obituary, The Independent, 3/1/1991
Ecological disaster map of South China, 1991
Revolution in Moscow, Independent on Sunday, 25/8/1991
The 9 to 5 terrorist, éLAN, 2/9/1991
Death of a dissident, 9/5/1992 (Cornelius Cardew, Composer)
Tibet News, July 1992
Milton called on to save paradise, [1993?] (re: Rooi Els, a biosphere reserve in South Africa)
After the gold rush, The Observer, 30/5/1993 (re: George Soros)
Goodbye, goodbye, Lorenzo Pickle, San Francisco Examiner, 18/7/1993 (Pickle Circus)
The Silent woman, New Yorker, August 23 & 30, 1993 (re: Sylvia Plath)
Oscar Lewenstein (obituary) Times, 1/3/1997
Cut the Director: Ronald Hartwood was appalled to find a German director had added new passages to his play, n.d.