The Golden Notebook
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Free Women: 1
The Notebooks: 1
Free Women: 2
The Notebooks: 2
Free Women: 3
The Notebooks: 3
Free Women: 4
The Notebooks: 4
The Golden Notebook
Free Women: 5
Themes
All Themes
Fragmentation, Breakdown, and Unity
Gender, Labor, and Power
Love and Sex
Communism and Disillusionment
Action, Freedom, and Moral Courage
Fact, Fiction, and Authorship
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Anna Wulf
Janet Wulf
Molly Jacobs
Tommy
Richard Portmain
Marion
Mrs Marks / Mother Sugar
Willi Rodde
Paul Blackenhurst
Jimmy McGrath
Ted Brown
Maryrose
George Hounslow
Michael
Saul Green
Nelson
Ella
Julia
Max Wulf
George
Dr West
Patricia Brent
Paul Tanner
Ella’s Father
Robert Brun
Cy Maitland
Jack
Ivor
Ronnie
James Schafter
De Silva
Tom Mathlong
Charlie Themba
Mrs Boothby
Jackson / The Cook
Marie
Comrade John Butte
Stanley Lett
Terms
All Terms
Ceylon
Nyasaland
Veld
Kopje
McCarthyism
The Rosenbergs
Joseph Stalin
National Service
Conscientious Objector
Quemoy
The Kremlin
Leucotomy
Trotskyism
Chekhov’s “The Darling”
Soho
F.L.N.
Symbols
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Anna’s Notebooks
Anna’s Dreams
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Introduction
Intro
Plot Summary
Plot
Summary & Analysis
Free Women: 1
The Notebooks: 1
Free Women: 2
The Notebooks: 2
Free Women: 3
The Notebooks: 3
Free Women: 4
The Notebooks: 4
The Golden Notebook
Free Women: 5
Themes
All Themes
Fragmentation, Breakdown, and Unity
Gender, Labor, and Power
Love and Sex
Communism and Disillusionment
Action, Freedom, and Moral Courage
Fact, Fiction, and Authorship
Quotes
Characters
All Characters
Anna Wulf
Janet Wulf
Molly Jacobs
Tommy
Richard Portmain
Marion
Mrs Marks / Mother Sugar
Willi Rodde
Paul Blackenhurst
Jimmy McGrath
Ted Brown
Maryrose
George Hounslow
Michael
Saul Green
Nelson
Ella
Julia
Max Wulf
George
Dr West
Patricia Brent
Paul Tanner
Ella’s Father
Robert Brun
Cy Maitland
Jack
Ivor
Ronnie
James Schafter
De Silva
Tom Mathlong
Charlie Themba
Mrs Boothby
Jackson / The Cook
Marie
Comrade John Butte
Stanley Lett
Terms
All Terms
Ceylon
Nyasaland
Veld
Kopje
McCarthyism
The Rosenbergs
Joseph Stalin
National Service
Conscientious Objector
Quemoy
The Kremlin
Leucotomy
Trotskyism
Chekhov’s “The Darling”
Soho
F.L.N.
Symbols
All Symbols
Anna’s Notebooks
Anna’s Dreams
Theme Wheel
Theme Viz
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