This character, who grows up on a farm in Africa, is annoyed by Mrs. Van Rensberg's comparison of her to the more fashionable Marnie in a novel named for her that appears in a series along with books like Landlocked and A Proper Marriage.
This character has sex in an attic with a Jewish orchestra director named Thomas whose Polish family members have all been exterminated. She attempts to induce a miscarriage by immersing herself in a scalding hot bath and jumping off a table after her abrupt marriage to a man who only takes her out of the house to attend "sundowners" with his friends from the Sports Club. Earlier in the book that concludes with her marriage to Douglas Knowell, she argues with her brother Jonathan about the political and social acceptability of two Jewish shopkeepers' sons from whom she has always borrowed books, Solly and Joss Cohen. This character, who grows up on a farm in Africa, is annoyed by Mrs. Van Rensberg's comparison of her to the more fashionable Marnie in a novel named for her that appears in a series along with books like Landlocked and A Proper Marriage. For 10 points, name this woman, the title character of the first novel in Doris Lessing's Children of Violence series.
This character has sex in an attic with a Jewish orchestra director named Thomas whose Polish family members have all been exterminated.
{Martha Quest}