Under Spell of Witch, Writer: Doris Lessing
Ugly misogynist comments and actions during a recent U.S. presidential campaign prompted me to question present attitudes toward women and men. So, I reread Doris Lessing’s The Diary of a Good Neighbor, mainly, because the major protagonists are women. Though published in 1983, the novel is timeless. Jane Somers, a women’s magazine editor in London, had not allowed the unpleasantness of life to touch her. Her husband and mother had died in a hospital. An efficient and success