While still in her teens, she held a number of jobs to piece together a living. She received no further formal education, though she self-educated from then on. Afterward, she attended Girls High School in Salisbury and dropped out of school at the age of thirteen. Lessing attended the Dominican Convent High School, a Roman Catholic convent for all girls in the Southern Rhodesian capital of Salisbury (what is now Harare). Observing the strife caused by the British in their colonial rule of the African nation, she developed a strong moral compass and political bent. When she was five, her parents moved with her to Rhodesia (what is now Zimbabwe) to farm crops on one thousand acres of land. She was born Doris May Tayler in what was then Persia (present-day Iran) to British parents, Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler. One of the most revered voices in modern literature, she has written intelligently and passionately about politics, parenting, aging, love relationships, and feminism. Doris Lessing, (Octo– November 17, 2013) was a British novelist, playwright, poet, short story writer, and biographer.
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