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   Martha Quest ( 1952) is the second novel of British Nobel Prize in Literature -winner Doris Lessing, and the first of the five-volume semi-autobiographical Children of Violence series, which traces Martha Quest’s life to middle age.

   • Author: Doris May Lessing

   • Publish Year: 1952

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   Martha Quest is basically a bildungsroman about a young Englishwoman in South Africa in the 30s. Intelligent, observant, and full of herself like most young people, Martha despises her conventional parents who've rather failed at this colonial farming venture, and likewise despises pretty much all of her friends, from the unfortunate Dutch ...

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   The Children of Violence is a sequence of five semi-autobiographical novels by British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing: Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969).

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   Oct 17, 2011 · Martha Quest. by. Lessing, Doris May, 1919-. Publication date. 1995. Topics. Women, British. Publisher. New York : HarperPerennial.

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   Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood.

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   • Author: Doris Lessing

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   For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing — and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha...

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   Who is Martha Quest?

   • But Martha Quest, in some ways, seems an apprenticeship-effort for the creation of Anna Freeman Wulf, Mrs. Lessing’s protagonist in The Golden Notebook and by far one of the most consciously self-critical and analytical women in modern fiction.

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   When was Martha Quest written?

   • Last Updated September 6, 2023. Written by Doris Lessing in 1952, Martha Quest is the first in the five-volume semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence. The novel takes place in Southern Rhodesia from 1934 to 1938 and traces the life of Martha Quest as she comes of age, dealing with issues such as women’s rights, class, and race.

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   How is Martha Quest characterized?

   • Martha Quest is characterized in terms of details relevant to her time and place; she categorizes herself, and is categorized by others, as a socialist and an atheist, labels that stick with her throughout the novels. Early in the first novel, Martha Quest, Miss Lessing fixes Martha:

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   How is Martha Quest presented in children of violence?

   • In the first four volumes of Children of Violence, Martha Quest is presented as a rebellious adolescent at odds with herself, her family and the values of the white colonial society of the southern African country where she is raised.

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   Written by Doris Lessing in 1952, Martha Quest is the first in the five-volume semi-autobiographical series The Children of Violence. The novel takes place in Southern Rhodesia from 1934 to 1938...