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The Golden Notebook Lesson Plan

Introduction to The Golden Notebook

The Golden Notebook follows the English writer Anna Wulf, author of one tremendously successful novel, Communist, single mother to Janet, and "free woman," as she seeks a cohesive understanding of her identity through writing. While the "Free Women" portion of the narrative follows Anna's close relationship with her friend Molly, Molly's son Tommy, and their intertwined histories and struggles, Anna is also writing in four notebooks. The black notebook explores Anna's young adulthood in colonial Rhodesia; the red notebook narrates her political identity, particularly her relationship to the Communist Party; the yellow notebook is a new novel based on Anna's most recent romantic...

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