''Landlocked'' (1965) is the fourth novel in British

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-winner

Doris Lessing Doris May Lessing (; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remain ...

five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, ''

Children of Violence 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'' (196 ...

''. The first volume is ''

Martha Quest ''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. The ...

'' (1952), and the others are, ''

A Proper Marriage ''A Proper Marriage'' (1954) is the second novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, ''Children of Violence''. The first volume is '' Martha Quest'' (1952), and the others are, '' ...

'' (1954), ''

A Ripple from the Storm ''A Ripple from the Storm'' (1958) is the third novel in British Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Doris Lessing five volume, semi-autobiographical, series, ''Children of Violence''. The first volume is ''Martha Quest'' (1952), and the others are ...

'' (1958), and ''

The Four-Gated City ''The Four-Gated City'', published in 1969, is the concluding novel in British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's five-volume, semi-autobiographical series '' The Children of Violence'', which she began, in 1952, with ''Martha Quest''. In ...

'' (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest "from girlhood to middle age". This is the last of the series that is set in southern Africa: "The time is the last few months of a war that had not only ruined Europe but had flooded a message of equality even into this backwater. Some of the white people have already sensed the imminence of change: they could never again unthinkingly hold down this corner of Africa for themselves and their heirs".Dust jacket of the first edition, DorisLessing.org
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Novels set in Rhodesia Zimbabwean novels 1965 British novels Novels by Doris Lessing MacGibbon & Kee books {{1960s-novel-stub