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...book is more important to understanding the new perspective than Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, published in 1962. It is an ambitious, cerebral work about a generous, brave and intelligent woman named Anna Wulf, a writer, leftist, divorcee, analysand who, like the author, emigrated from South Africa to London. Anna thinks of herself as "a free woman," independent of marriage contracts and numerous other social conventions, really interested only in people "who have tried the frontiers...
...fights or faults, but because their need for her is gone. Anna's need remains-to a painful degree. An old-fashioned dilemma indeed for a free woman, and Lessing does not miss the irony. At the end of the book Anna says ruefully, "Here lies Anna Wulf, who was always too intelligent. She let them...
...Melvin Wulf, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed the brief for the Idaho mother. "I am moderately pleased that we won the case, but the pleasure is very qualified because we did not win on broader grounds," he said...
...purpose was to try to get the Supreme Court to declare that sexual discrimination is unconstitutional. The Court has apparently declined to make that major step," Wulf said...
Mostly she is Martha Quest of Children of Violence, Anna Wulf of The Golden Notebook-or Doris Lessing, for virtually all of the author's writing is autobiographical. The Four-Gated City is the last of five novels in a Martha Quest series. The first four were set in an imaginary country named Zambesia (Lessing was raised in Rhodesia). They followed Martha through girlhood rebellion against baffled parents, two short bad marriages, immersion in the Communist Party during World War II, and a subsequent period of psychic drying...