![]() ![]() She left school at 13, left home at 15 and married for the first time at 19.īy the age of 30, Lessing had married again and become disenchanted with her second husband and his communist beliefs. Lessing was raised by British parents in Zimbabwe - called Rhodesia then. I got married and had children because of the Second World War - as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world!' But we had children by the dozen and got married. First, it's been dominated by war, right from the start. We are not often aware of it," Lessing said. "I think all the time we are being manipulated by great social currents. ![]() Indeed, even in the science fiction which she considered her finest work, Lessing's characters live firmly within - and are utterly the products of - history. ![]()
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