Choose the right chronological sequence of the publication of the following books:

A. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
B. Alice Walker, The Color Purple
C. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
D. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

Correct option is C

Explanation:

1. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962)

   It is a seminal feminist novel exploring societal and psychological issues. The novel explores the struggles of Anna Wulf, a woman novelist dealing with writer’s block. Deeply introspective, she attempts to understand her chaotic life by maintaining four notebooks. The black notebook reflects her early life in British colonial Africa, the red one details her experiences as a communist, the yellow notebook contains a fictional narrative about her alter ego, Ella, and the blue one serves as her diary. These excerpts interweave with parts of a fictional work titled Free Women, featuring a character named Anna Wulf. As the fragmented narratives evolve, Anna reconciles her disjointed experiences and brings them together into a unified golden notebook, symbolizing the integration of her personal and creative life.​

2. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)

   • The Bluest Eye is the debut novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, first published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison’s hometown, during 1940–41, the story revolves around Pecola Breedlove, an African American girl living in an abusive household. Pecola, at the age of eleven, associates beauty and acceptance with whiteness and dreams of having “the bluest eye.” Initially overlooked upon its release, the novel is now regarded as a classic of American literature and a vital exploration of the African American experience following the Great Depression.
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3.  Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)

   • ​The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by Alice Walker that won both the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1983. Recognized as a significant work of modern American literature, the novel portrays the lives of African American women in early 20th-century rural Georgia. The story centers on sisters Celie and Nettie, who remain devoted to each other despite being separated by time, distance, and silence. Told through letters spanning twenty years—initially from Celie to God and later between the sisters—the novel vividly depicts the lives of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia, highlighting their struggles, pain, resilience, and personal growth. Breaking the silence on issues of domestic and sexual abuse, The Color Purple offers a powerful narrative of companionship, courage, and love. Deeply moving and beautifully crafted, Alice Walker's novel takes readers on a journey of redemption and empowerment.​
     

4. Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

   • The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. The story takes place in a near-future New England, now a patriarchal, totalitarian state called the Republic of Gilead, which has replaced the United States government. The protagonist and narrator, Offred, is a "Handmaid," one of the women forced to bear children for the ruling elite known as the "Commanders." The novel examines the oppression of women in a patriarchal system, the loss of female autonomy and identity, the denial of reproductive rights, and the strategies women use to resist and reclaim their individuality and freedom.