A Proper Marriage

A Proper Marriage
First edition
Author	Doris Lessing
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Published	1954
Publisher	Michael Joseph
Media type	Print

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, A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). The Children of Violence series, follows the life of protagonist Martha Quest from girlhood to middle age".^[1]

A Proper Marriage continues the story of Lessing's eponymous protagonist that she began in Martha Quest. In that novel Martha, aged fifteen left the Southern Rhodesian farm on which she was brought up to work as a typist in the provincial capital, 'the big city'. "Although rapidly disillusioned, she was inescapable drawn into the hectic life of the smart set" and then gets married.^[2] A Proper Marriage reveals the way in which "Martha's rebellious temperament reacted to her new life", and of "her growing discontent with the young married set to which she and her husband Douglas now belong; of the arrival of her baby, which seems another threat to her freedom". The novel also deals with the outbreak of World War II "and of her husband's "departure with the army".^[3]

References

↑ Encyclopaedia Britannica online
↑ From the dust jacket of the first edition. Doris Lessing.org
↑ From the dust jacket of the first edition.

Works by Doris Lessing

Novels	The Grass Is Singing Martha Quest The Golden Notebook A Proper Marriage A Ripple from the Storm Landlocked The Four-Gated City Memoirs of a Survivor Shikasta The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five The Sirian Experiments The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire The Good Terrorist The Fifth Child Ben, in the World The Sweetest Dream The Cleft

Short stories	"Through the Tunnel" "Flight"

Collections, including essays	Prisons We Choose to Live Inside The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels

Autobiography	Under My Skin Walking in the Shade

Science fiction	Canopus in Argos The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Other	Alfred and Emily

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