Abstract:

Problem Statement: Women’s autobiography, once acknowledged as an inferior and devalued genre, has now achieved a significant place in literary writing and criticism.Not surprisingly, there are obvious and striking differences between women’s autobiographical writings and those of men’s. While women’s life stories emphasize personal and domestic details and describe connections with other people, men focus on their accomplishments in their professional lives. Women’s life writings are non-linear, non-chronological, disconnected and fragmented; whereas, men provide linear and chronological personal narratives. Purpose: This paper aims to show Doris Lessing, one of the most important women writers in British Literature, as a woman autobiographer present her life story and experience in Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949. Method: Doris Lessing’s autobiography is examined with the help of the theories of women’s autobiographical writings. Findings and Results: This study has explored that Doris Lessing wrote an autobiography which had some of the characteristics of autobiographies written by women. Lessing preferred writing about her private life like the other women autobiographers

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