Anna Izabela Cichon University of Wroclaw Poland

Family Frames, Memory and Autobiography: Doris Lessings Under my Skin and Walking in the Shade

Under My Skin (1994)

(period:1919-1949)

Walking in the Shade (1997)

(period:1949-1962)
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Under My Skin Doris Lessings parents: Alfred Cook Taylor (in 1915), Emily Maude McVeagh, Royal Free Hospital (in 1917)

Under My Skin Persia

(1919--1924)

Under My Skin Southern Rhodesia (1925)

Construction of the house. Ploughing a new-stumped field for the first time.

Under My Skin
(19251932)

Under My Skin: Sailsbury, Rhodesia

Left: Frank Wisdom (1939), John and Jane Right: Gottfired Lessing (1943) , Peter

Under My Skin

Walking in the Shade

Visit to Russia with the Authors World Peace Appeal delegation; Boris Polevoi, Naomi Mitchison, Tolstoys house (left), Tolstoys grave

Walking in the Shade Warrick Road

In the kitchen with Leslie Sigal and Peter

Walking in the Shade Doris Lessings 1950s portraits

Left: by Ida Kar Below: by Mark Gerson

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Walking in the Shade

Church Street Doris Lessings mother and son Peter
There are very few photographs in this volume. I hated being photographed and also we thought that being photographed was really rather petit bourgeois and selfindulgent.

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Walking in the Shade

American edition

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Under My Skin
Captition (left): About nine years old, with my mother, who is looking ill and unhappy. She had put a lot of face powder and rouge on the photograph.

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Walking in the Shade American Edition--Harper Perenial (left), English EditionFlamingo (right)

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Walking in the Shade, English edition

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Walking in the Shade (American ed.)

Doris Lessing with John Deakin, Michael Hastings, Kenneth Tynan (1957) The Aldermaston Rallies Mrs. Toni SussmanMother Sugar in The Golden Notebook

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Walking in the Shade

Charrington Street, kitchen English edition (left); American edition (right)

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