![]() ![]() First up is Alice Ridout, Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film at Algoma University. Inspired by Lessing, we have attempted a small formal experiment and shaped this episode around contributions from three expert guests. ![]() What holds these varied themes – and the related parts of Anna’s life – together is The Golden Notebook‘s fascinating form. Across the book, she grapples with such diverse themes as colonialism, communism, the life of writing, and what it means to be a “free” woman in the 1940s and 50s. ![]() Although Anna lives in the UK, her memories take us to southern Africa and her imagination to the USSR. Like Lessing, Anna is a writer, but the similarities between author and character don’t end there. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is next on our list! This novel explores the life of Anna Wulf. ![]()
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