DL/WORKS//GRASS - [Works by Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing]

DL/WORKS//GRASS

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[Works by Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing]

1992

1 Letters (typescript)
2 Documents

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

3 items, some highlighted. Includes correspondence from Doris Lessing to Terry Carton and Jane Beirn.

DL/WORKS//GRASS/001 [from Doris Lessing to Terry Carton and Jane Beirn, 29/05/1992]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she is "not very happy about the copy for the New York Public Library", that it makes her sound "like an essayist, a polemicist". Discusses how she disagrees that literature must be seen in terms of "issues". Writes that she hopes The Grass is Singing "is a rather more complicated novel than just confronting apartheid".

DL/WORKS//GRASS/002 [from Doris Lessing to Michael Thorpe, undated]

Letter, 2 leaves, typed.
Discusses biographical details, such as the age of her brother and referring to her mother as "British". Discusses Mary Turner and Moses.