Hints and tips:
...His relationship with Dori, a school friend modelled on David Copperfield’s naïve “child-wife” Dora, ends in tragedy, and other losses ensue....
...Virginia Woolf’s The Years was followed by Tina Brown’s fabulously gossipy The Vanity Fair Diaries....
...As for female writers, I could not have done without the work of Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Jhumpa Lahiri and Rachel Cusk in finding the courage to write about what are typically and disparagingly considered...
...Doris Lessing’s embarrassing masterpiece The Golden Notebook (embarrassing because I’m reading it only now) and Bruce Chatwin’s collection What Am I Doing Here....
...Doris Edwards, a 50-year-old retail specialist from Dallas, Texas, hopes to scale that ladder within two years, which would mark a seven-year turnround after she declared bankruptcy after losing a job as...
...She is also doing someone else – someone more light-headed, poetic, like Virginia Woolf or the lesser-known author of 1960s avant-garde novels, Ann Quinn....
...Kingsolver is married with two children and lives on a farm in south-west Virginia. Can you remember the first novel you read? My father read me Oliver Twist. What is your daily writing routine?...
...Woolf and Doris Lessing....
...“That’s when I knew that he knew what he was doing,” Doris recalls. But Cities Service quickly soared to $202 a share....
...His father, Kenneth, was a colliery electrician who became a shopkeeper, while his mother, Doris, died an alcoholic....
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