Abstract
Doris Lessing was a prolific letter writer. Her personal archive in the British Archive for Contemporary Writing at UEA includes a huge range and volume of material: 130 boxes amounting to thousands of pages of letters, faxes, notebooks, postcards, notebooks, dream diaries and other personal papers. There is more correspondence (as well as a significant number of literary manuscripts) at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and a small but significant tranche at The Keep, University of Sussex, not to mention letters from Lessing held in several of her correspondents' archives. These letters present a complex and fascinating resource of paratextual material which enriches and challenges our reading of her published works.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 62-69 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Critical Quarterly |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 9 Jul 2023 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2023 |