Although she shied away from being described as a feminist, Lessing was embraced by many feminists because she broke new ground in exploring the lives of women. The Golden Notebook, in which a woman writer attempts to come to terms with the life of her times through her art, is one of the most complex and the most widely read of her novels. Among her most substantial works is the series Children of Violence, a five-novel sequence that centres on Martha Quest, who grows up in southern Africa and settles in England. British writer Doris Lessing felt that “a writer’s job is to provoke questions.” Her first published book, The Grass Is Singing, is about a white farmer and his wife and their African servant in Rhodesia.
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