Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Doris Lessing across 4 places, from 1919 to 2013.
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Doris May Lessing ( Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Doris Lessing was documented, and when
22 October 1919exact date
Kermanshahattested“Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Iran, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British subjects.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
1937 to 1992period
Harareattested“In 1937, Lessing moved to Salisbury to work as a telephone operator, and she soon married her first husband, civil servant Frank Wisdom, with whom she had two children (John, 1940–1992, and Jean, born in 1941), before the marriage ended…”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
1949year
Londonattested“Lessing moved to London in 1949 with her younger son, Peter, to pursue her writing career and socialist beliefs, but left the two older children with their father, Frank Wisdom.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
17 November 2013exact date
West Hampsteadattested“She died on 17 November 2013, aged 94, at her home in West Hampstead, London, of kidney failure, sepsis and a chest infection, predeceased by her two sons, but was survived by her daughter, Jean, who lives in South Africa.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
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1943 to 1949period
Southern Rhodesiamentioned“Lessing also had a love affair with RAF serviceman John Whitehorn (brother of journalist Katharine Whitehorn), who was stationed in Southern Rhodesia, and wrote him ninety letters between 1943 and 1949.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
1956year
South Africamentioned“I would have ended up an alcoholic or a frustrated intellectual like my mother." As well as campaigning against nuclear arms, she was an active opponent of apartheid, which led her to being banned from South Africa and Rhodesia in 1956 f…”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
2004year
New Orleansmentioned“The Society also organises panels at the Modern Languages Association (MLA) annual Conventions and has held two international conferences in New Orleans in 2004 and Leeds in 2007.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
2008year
Ransom Centermentioned“The 76 archival boxes of Lessing's materials at the Ransom Center contain nearly all of her extant manuscripts and typescripts up to 2008.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
17 November 2013exact date
South Africamentioned“She died on 17 November 2013, aged 94, at her home in West Hampstead, London, of kidney failure, sepsis and a chest infection, predeceased by her two sons, but was survived by her daughter, Jean, who lives in South Africa.”source: Wikipedia: Doris Lessing
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