In the rough environment, Emily tried to lead an Edwardian lifestyle, which would have been easy had the family been wealthy in reality, such a lifestyle was not feasible. In 1925, the family moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm maize and other plants on about 1,000 acres (400 ha) of bush that Alfred bought. The couple moved to Kermanshah, for Alfred to take a job as a clerk for the Imperial Bank of Persia it was there that Doris was born in 1919. Her father, who had lost a leg during his service in World War I, met his future wife, a nurse, at the Royal Free Hospital where he was recovering from his amputation. Lessing was born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia, on 22 October 1919, to Captain Alfred Tayler and Emily Maude Tayler (née McVeagh), both British subjects.
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