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Crystals, Fragments and Golden Wholes: Short Stories in The Golden Notebook

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Doris Lessing is a self-confessed short story junkie. ‘Some writers I know’, she says in the Preface to African Stories, “have stopped writing short stories because … “there is no market for them.” Others like myself, the addicts, go on, and I suspect would go on even if there really wasn’t any home for them but a private drawer.’1

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  1. Doris Lessing, ‘Preface,’ African Stories (New York: Ballantine, 1966), p. x.

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  2. Doris Lessing, A Man and Two Women (New York: Popular Library, 1963). References to stories from this edition will be incorporated parenthetically in the text.

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  3. Eve Bertelsen, ‘Interview with Doris Lessing’, in Doris Lessing, ed. Eve Bertelsen (Isando, SA: McGraw Hill, 1985) p. 103.

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  4. I am quoting in this paragraph from Elizabeth Abel, ‘Resisting the Exchange: Brother-Sister Incest in Fiction by Doris Lessing’, in Doris Lessing: The Alchemy of Survival, ed. Carey Kaplan and Ellen Cronan Rose (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 1988).

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  5. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962) p. 436. I am using the 1972 third printing, which includes Lessing’s 1971 Introduction.

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  6. Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell (New York: Knopf, 1971) p. 165.

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  1. Ellen Cronan Rose
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  1. College of St Paul and St Mary, Cheltenham, UK

    Clare Hanson (Senior Lecturer in English) (Senior Lecturer in English)

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Rose, E.C. (1989). Crystals, Fragments and Golden Wholes: Short Stories in The Golden Notebook. In: Hanson, C. (eds) Re-reading the Short Story. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10313-3_11

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