Susan Watkins

Susan Watkins is <a href="http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/cs/staff_watkins.htm">principal lecturer</a> in English at the School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, where her main teac

Doris Lessing: writing against and for

The Nobel literature award honours an eternal outsider whose critical distance from orthodoxy fuels her work's remarkable "predictive" quality, says Susan Watkins in this 2007 article.

By Susan Watkins

/ 17 Nov 2013

Doris Lessing: writing against and for

At the end of the second world war, Doris Lessing made the long boat trip to London from southern Africa with the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is

By Susan Watkins

/ 12 Oct 2007