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The Pathology ofFeminine Failure inthe Fiction of DorisLessingAlice Bradley Markowa

a West Chester State CollegePublished online: 19 Jun 2013.

To cite this article: Alice Bradley Markow (1974) ThePathology of Feminine Failure in the Fiction of Doris Lessing,Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 16:1, 88-100, DOI:10.1080/00111619.1974.10690076

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NOTES

1 Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing (New York, 1951), pp. 156-7. ' Doris Lessing, "The Second Hut," African Stories (New York, 1965), p. 95. 1 Doris Lessing, A Ripple from the Storm (New York, 1966), p. 131. 4 Doris Lessing, The Summer Before the Dark (New York, 1973), p. 59. 5 Doris Lessing, Martha Quest (New York, 1964), p. 167. • A Ripple from the Sturm, p. 240. 7 Doris Lessing, Play with a Tiger (New York, 1962), p. 58. H Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (New York, 1962), p. 211. • Doris Lessing, "Between Men," A Man and Twa Women (New York, 1958), p. 150. 111 Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City (New York, 1969), p. 70. 11 Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage (New York, 1964), p. 466. " The Golden Notebook, p. 545. 1..1 Play with a Tiger, pp. 57-8. 14 "To Room Nineteen," A Man and Twa Women, p. 253. 15 A Ripple from the Storm, p. 378. 1• The Golden Notebook, p. 314.

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