A selective list of online literary criticism for novelist Doris Lessing, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Crater, Theresa L. "In their death they were not divided": literary death as liberation. [death, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, Doris Lessing, To Room Nineteen]. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 01-AUG-02.
Glover, Jayne. The metaphor of the horse in Doris Lessing's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five: an ecofeminist question? Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Jan, 2006.
Gurenci, Berkem. Representations of women and writing in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Peride Celal's Uc, Kadinin Romani. Kadin/Woman 2000, 01-DEC-03.
Henstra, Sarah. Nuclear Cassandra: Prophecy in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2007.
Jacobs, Naomi. Spiritual Exploration in the Works of Doris Lessing. Utopian Studies, Wntr, 2000.
Nordius, Janina. Lessing's 'To Room Nineteen.' The Explicator, March 22, 1999.
Scanlan, Margaret. Language and the Politics of Despair in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist. First page of article only. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 23, No. 2, 182-198. Winter, 1990.
Scullion, Val. Introduction to Doris Lessing, from the Literary Encyclopedia. Oct. 27, 2007. On Lessing's The Golden Notebook.
Wade, Stephen. Doris Lessing's enquiring mind at work. Contemporary Review, July, 2005.
Wallace, Diana. "Women's time": women, age, and intergenerational relations in Doris Lessing's The Diaries of Jane Somers. Studies in the Literary Imagination, 22-SEP-06.
Yelin, Louise. A review of From the Margins of Empire: Christina Stead, Doris Lessing, Nadine Gordimer. Reviewed in Yearbook of English Studies, 2001, by Stephen Cowden; another review, in Studies in the Novel, Fall, 2000, by Judith Kegan Gardiner.
A substantial introductory article on Doris Lessing, includes a list of her books, from the British Council
An interview with Doris Lessing in which she talks of her new book, Alfred & Emily, whose title refers to her parents, British colonists who raised her in Rhodesia. NY Times, July 27, 2008.
Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize in Literature, 2007, at the Nobel web site; also her Nobel speech, as reported by The Guardian, which notes, "in her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the 'inanities' of the internet." (Read it here.)
Nobel in literature no big deal for Lessing. Oakland Tribune, Oct. 12, 2007.
'Scepticism, fire and visionary power': Lessing wins the Nobel. The Independent (London), Oct 12, 2007.
Interview with Doris Lessing at salon.com, 1997.
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