![]() In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual. ![]() In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she feared would destroy her, she left her family, rema Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia her mother had been a nurse. ![]() At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. ![]() Both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia her mother had been a nurse. ![]()
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