Born in Persia, raised in Rhodesia, Doris Lessing is self-taught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doris Blessing] Reference

I think Lessing is the better stylist, so that might swing it for you.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman’s Place « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

Doris Lessing is part of both the history of literature and living literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech] Reference

As I browsed I came across a piece on Anna Kavan; Doris Lessing is great advocate for her writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [40 entries from May 2007] Reference

His uncritical admiration for many contemporary poets vanished as he became interested in Lessing and Wieland.    From Wordnik.com.  [johann wolfgang von goethe | outside of the gate | Faust I. « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Doris Lessing is a writer who made her mark writing mainstream literature but who has also dabbled in science fiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing] Reference

Lessing is the eleventh woman to win the prize in its 106-year history, and also the oldest person ever to win the literature award.    From Wordnik.com.  [doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

Bode does not name Lessing; calls him “a well-known German scholar.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Doris Lessing is this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (BBC).    From Wordnik.com.  [WSFA Small Press Award] Reference

But I did not tell Mrs. Smith-Lessing the code word, and I know nothing of the disappearance of those documents. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Betrayal] Reference

– Lessing is waiting to fight you in my room. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference

You remember I had an old godfather, Major Lessing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

History of German national literature since Lessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

Lessing was fiercely marked by her parents 'ordeals.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Life] Reference

Lessing was too original a mind, and at the time when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Miss Lessing, our way home lies in the same direction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Do you remember what Lessing said about such longings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

See also “Lessing und die Engländer” by Josef Caro in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

"Everybody walked everywhere, or used horses," Lessing said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The history of the bicycle] Reference

"I think Mr.. Lessing was right," said Mr. Curzon, presently.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

Lessing as the scholar referred to in the first introduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

But Lessing had the sense to admit that there were exceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Mightier Than The Pen] Reference

Bode and Lessing had translated the book; it is reported too that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

In a brash experiment with form, Lessing divides the book in half.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Life] Reference

Lessing in Germany was soon outstripped by the vast mind of Schiller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Lessing speaks fondly of the great solace she has found in literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Life] Reference

Lessing and Goethe, of Hegel and Schiller and Fichte, there was no real.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why?] Reference

Lessing must have become acquainted with the Sentimental Journey before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Lessing was in Hamburg during this period, and hence his advice was available.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Lessing to that of Ten Brink there has been a succession of German commentators.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference

In 1841 he went to Europe, and studied art at Düsseldorf under Professor Lessing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876] Reference

Lessing the effort to emancipate the drama from some of its neo-classical restriction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

As Lessing recounts, the two met in the hospital ward, and found comfort in each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary Life] Reference

Lessing also had read the book shortly before, and had just recommended it to his friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

From these fragments it is clear that Lessing meant to save Faust's soul, if not his body.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference

Major Lessing did not answer for some minutes, and Paul ascribed his silence to exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference