![]() In 1949 moved to London with her youngest son, armed with only £20 and the manuscript of her first novel, The Grass is Singing. Lessing divorced her first husband and married again, having another child and then a second divorce. ![]() Lessing left school at 13 and home at 15, moving to the capital of Southern Rhodesia, Salisbury (now Harare), where she worked as a telephone operator, got married, and had two children. However, he failed to succeed in this endeavor and the family remained poor. Shortly after her birth the family moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where Lessing’s father hoped to become wealthy through farming. Doris Lessing was born in Iran to British parents her father, Captain Alfred Tayler, was a clerk at the Imperial Bank of Persia.
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