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Why is there no blue plaque for Doris Lessing in Langham Street?

by Jennifer Kavanagh 7:49 am, Thursday, 1 December 201612:50 pm, Thursday, 26 January 2017

Did you know that Doris Lessing lived in Holbein Mansion, Langham Street from 1958 to 1962? She rented a flat from her publisher, Howard Samuels, for £5 a week. Doris Lessing (1919 – 2013) was one of the foremost post-war British novelists, the author of some fifty novels, plays and volumes of poetry and autobiography. She […]

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