DL/WORKS//LOVE - [Works by Doris Lessing: Love, Again]

DL/WORKS//LOVE

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[Works by Doris Lessing: Love, Again]

1995-2001

12 Letters (typescript and MS)
1 Fax
1 Article

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

14 items, some highlighted. Includes correspondence regarding translating Love, Again into French, Norwegian, and Swedish.

DL/WORKS//LOVE/001 [from Doris Lessing to Andrew [surname unknown], 06/07/1995]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses translating Love, Again into French, and the difficulties of exact translations. Writes that "there is no way of finding an equivalent of my style in French, because it is free-flowing and easy, and French is so formal". Discusses that if she was brought up in France, then she would "never have written like this", that her "mind would have been set inside the structures of French".

DL/WORKS//LOVE/008 [from Doris Lessing to Mildred Tremblay, 03/02/1997]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Replies to a letter from Tremblay (missing) that suggests that there aren't any female friendships in Love, Again. Lessing replies and disagrees, and discusses the friendship between Sarah and Mary. Writes "women sitting in kitchens talking intimately - that is friendship. Well, not to me, it isn't".

DL/WORKS//LOVE/009 [from Mildred Tremblay to Doris Lessing, 03/06/1997]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses the idea of "friendship". Writes that she thought Lessing "a little mean" regarding her comment about "kitchen friendships".

DL/WORKS//LOVE/010 [from Doris Lessing to Mildred Tremblay, 04/07/1997]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses how she thinks she's "afraid" of "kitchen friendships". Writes how to her "it was a nightmare because these were trapped women, and I was listening to the grumbling voices of victims". Discusses the 'man-hating' notion between women.