A Proper Marriage
This article will address the issue of A Proper Marriage, which has become a topic of great relevance today. For some years now, A Proper Marriage has aroused great interest in different areas, being the subject of debate, analysis and reflection by experts and scholars. Its influence and impact on today's society has led to numerous studies, research and projects being dedicated to it in various fields, seeking to understand its multiple facets and effects. Therefore, this article aims to explore and delve into the different dimensions that surround A Proper Marriage, in order to offer a broad and complete vision of this topic that is so relevant today.
 First edition | |
| Author | Doris Lessing |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Peter Rudland |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children of Violence |
| Published | 1954 |
| Publisher | Michael Joseph |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | Martha Quest |
| Followed by | A Ripple from the Storm |
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".
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. 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".
References
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica online
- ^ From the dust jacket of the first edition. Doris Lessing.org
- ^ From the dust jacket of the first edition.
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