In this week’s mini, we take a look at British writer Jenny Diski and her relationship with famed novelist Doris Lessing, who took a teenaged Jenny into her home. Though Lessing never adopted Diski, they had a long and at times awkward pseudo-familial relationship that Diski explored in her writing.
Links:
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? by Jenny Diski
Lost Ladies of Lit with Hilma Wolitzer
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
Jenny Diski in The London Review of Books
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