DL/WHI/078 - [Letter, Doris Lessing to John Whitehorn, 20/10/1947]
Reference code
DL/WHI/078
Level of description
Item
Title
[Letter, Doris Lessing to John Whitehorn, 20/10/1947]
Date/s
20/10/1947
Quantity & Format
1 leaf, typed on recto and verso. Includes envelope. Letters (typescript)
Personal name
Whitehorn, John
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Creator
Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013
Scope and content
Envelope addressed to John at Trinity Cambridge in Cambridge.
Doris must get on and write her monthly column for the Labour Forum. She is nervously conscious about how she writes as people’s thinking is twisted.
She thinks about her and John’s respective activities with the time difference of two hours between England and Rhodesia.
Doris writes of the confines a child brings. “I haven’t yet met a woman who isn’t bitterly rebellious, wanting children, but resenting them because of the way we are cribbed, cabined and confined.”
“Our grandmothers had night and day nurseries, head nurses, under nurses and nursery maids. Our grandaughters will have creches that one can trust and good nursery schools. We have neither.”
Doris must get on and write her monthly column for the Labour Forum. She is nervously conscious about how she writes as people’s thinking is twisted.
She thinks about her and John’s respective activities with the time difference of two hours between England and Rhodesia.
Doris writes of the confines a child brings. “I haven’t yet met a woman who isn’t bitterly rebellious, wanting children, but resenting them because of the way we are cribbed, cabined and confined.”
“Our grandmothers had night and day nurseries, head nurses, under nurses and nursery maids. Our grandaughters will have creches that one can trust and good nursery schools. We have neither.”
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