What are some female authors that you say have literary merit? I don't like the meme that women don't contribute anything worthwhile to lit, as I would disagree from some authors I have read, and so I'm curious if anyone else is favorable of any woman author?
I just started The Bell Jar, and it is simple, but it's got wit and intuition that I am falling in love with so far. But, some of female authors that I have read and liked a lot are Ursula K Leguin and Anna Kavan.
Virginia Woolf is very good I also recommend Carson McCullers
Robert Wood
>Carson McCullers I'll have to take a look. I'm taking a Women in Literature course next quarter for this curiosity and Virgina Woolf I think is on the syllabus.
Lincoln Davis
fuck, and also George Eliot, of course.
Sebastian Flores
Sylvia Plath is the most comely looking author. I bet she was great in the sack, crazy chicks usually are.
Levi Morris
Emily Bronte
James Anderson
Angelou, Maya Austen, Jane Brontë, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Cather, Willa Chopin, Kate Darrieussecq, Marie Duras, Marguerite Eliot, George Jackson, Shirley Le Guin, Ursula K. O'Connor, Flannery Robinson, Marilynne Sarraute, Nathalie Smith, Zadie Stein, Gertrude Wharton, Edith
We should try making a chart one of these days.
Christopher Clark
Emily Brontë. Both her poetry and Wuthering Heights demonstrate sublime energy and masterful style.
Gavin Jones
I think THIS picture of her is excellent. She is very cute. While I am reading The Bell Jar I imagine Esther as Sylvia looks in the OP photo.
But talking about Sylvia's looks may bring out her contempt...
William Adams
by "THIS picture" I meant OP. Contemptful Sylvia is not something I feel good while looking at. Shame, shame, shame...
John Thomas
I want to _____ Slyvia
Ian Anderson
uhh I knew this would happen with using such a cute OP.
I am interested in discovering the female-centric associations with Gothic lit. There was a course last year at my school about it and we did a conjoined assignment with my Film (we went and saw The Witch) class and what the theories they were drawing their conclusions from sounded so fascinating.
Tyler Miller
We have one. It's fairly comprehensive.
John Bell
Heard a lot of Wuthering Heights. I'm fond of the Grey Gardens (original) film and I've heard some comparisons made, dunno if that holds any real connection though.
Samuel Phillips
Neat
Julian Richardson
Me too, user
Chase Collins
>Lorrie Moore makes the list but Marilynne Robinson doesn't
yuck
Eli Sanders
On the topic of Anna Kavan (can someone tell me how to pronounce her last name too?) are her other books as interesting and expressionistic as Ice was? The plot of Ice is pretty meh, as I'm sure many would agree, but the anxiety and terror conveyed in her writing is something unique to my reading her.
Daniel Carter
I recently read The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector and found it very good. It borders on the line of being too abstract at times, but the language was very nice
Kevin Morgan
slit my wrists and lay in a bath tub with
Elijah Kelly
I have never read anything by her, but she seems very intelligent and honest by this interview I watched in one of my classes. I loved her for this and suggest you watch it if you're interested in some real honesty.
I read this earlier this year and I just though it was not very good, but going onto Goodreads I just see reviews by women who love it and I think that situations like these breed misogyny.
Jonathan Powell
Gina Berriault Shirley Hazzard
Hunter Gutierrez
>reviews by women That is totally her audience. Her humor is unfunny as hell to me, but being the "funniest" woman comic is like being the smartest retard.
Maria Bamford is actually funny #notallwomancomicsuck
Ryan Jones
preach it/take a sip ladies/yaaaass
Nicholas Nguyen
I like Maria bamford but she makes fun of mental illness a lot and I thought that was off limits by the knights of political correctness. But feminists seem to eat her shit up, so I guess as long as the group she is putting down is one you don't identify with, it's ok.
Carter Baker
This month I have read The Summer Book and Fair Play by Tove Jansson. They are terrific.
Easton Ramirez
Any opinions on Marie Luise Kaschnitz? She's been on my to-read list for ages since I read a poem of hers that I liked, but I haven't gotten around to it so far.
Oliver Turner
Mavis Gallant, forever and always. Second most published writer in the New Yorker before it went to shit. Some really subtle and complex character studies, such as how a post-WWII Frenchman can go for the far-right/neo-Facism.
Michael Ramirez
She also had some legit bouts of her own with mental illness.
I think she is funny because I like Garth from Wayne's World.
Brandon Wright
, a .
Jaxson Garcia
Some female "straight fiction/literature" or poetry authors I own five or more books by: Kathy Acker, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, Dionne Brand, A.S. Byatt, Marguerite Duras, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Hebert, Shirley Jackson, Evelyn Lau, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Edith Wharton, Jane Urquhart. I recommend them all.
Christian Murphy
Those quads.
I've heard Jane Austen is sarcastic and was making fun of her society. Which of her books does this best?
Henry Flores
I love Sylvia. Besides her, Virginia Woolf, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Edith Wharton, George Eliot, and Mary Shelley come to mind.
Logan Roberts
Pride and Prejudice, I'd say, though irony, satire and friendly mocking of people, and mild sarcasm are part of her style. The funniest is Northanger Abbey, her send-up of Gothic crap. It's equaled only by Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey.
Liam Morris
Why so much Abbey titles?
Jackson Diaz
The Gothic stories written by Brits depended on the otherness of Catholics (known mostly to them by the ruined abbeys from the dissolution and Puritan war) for their perverted villains and spooky settings.
Mason Morales
idk I have a lot of books by woman authors. Do you want a really long list? I actually thought over half my library was women authors but it is only ~38% apparently.
Xavier Watson
Contribute what you think you should. This thread is already pretty generous.
Joseph Ward
Ah, very interesting.
Daniel Gomez
Why does lit hate Ayn Rand?
Jonathan Mitchell
Stirner basically pisses on her.
Blake Young
I only included better known authors
Jane Austen Beryl Bainbridge Simone de Beauvoir Sybille Bedford Aphra Behn Caroline Blackwood Vera Brittain Anne Brontë Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anita Brookner Elizabeth Barrett Browning Leonora Carrington Margaret Cavendish Ivy Compton-Burnett Barbara Comyns Jennifer Dawson EM Delafield Margaret Drabble Daphne Du Maurier George Eliot Fumiko Enchi Penelope Fitzgerald Marie de France Elizabeth Gaskell Stella Gibbons Elizabeth Jane Howard Julian of Norwich Molly Keane Louise Labé Madame de Lafayette Olivia Manning Katherine Mansfield Nancy Mitford Penelope Mortimer Iris Murdoch Irène Némirovsky Anaïs Nin Edna O'Brien Barbara Pym Mary Renault Jean Rhys Christina Rossetti Vita Sackville-West Françoise Sagan Lady Sarashina Mary Shelley Sei Shonagon Murasaki Shikibu Edith Sitwell Stevie Smith Muriel Spark Elizabeth Taylor Flora Thompson Sylvia Townsend Warner Rebecca West Antonia White Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolfe
Aaron Stewart
I've been putting off on reading that book, should I keep putting it off or is it really worth the read?
Caleb King
I'll throw in Anne Carson and Joan Didion (nonfiction only).
This thread is honestly one of the best I've seen on this board in a while. Good job everybody.
Gavin Ramirez
You lost
Zinaida Gippius Elena Guro Karen Blixen Ry Nikonova Frances Yates
Julian Brooks
I dont know if Ingeborg Bachmann is known internationally
Jacob Ortiz
How about Ingeborg Bachmann?
Blake Watson
Dont see you post.
Ryder Butler
Jane Urquhart
Mason Jackson
hug and tell everything will be okay to
Zachary Taylor
I know most women can't write humor but Evelyn Waugh is a laugh riot. You should check her out. I never thought women could be funny until I read her.
Hudson Collins
kavæn
Yes, it's worth the read.
Nicholas Sullivan
Evelyn Waugh is male.
Julian Ortiz
Edith Wharton is very good. I'm currently reading The Age of Innocence; good stuff.
Jason Cox
comfort and emotionally support
Elijah Morgan
>ignoring my waifu
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Benjamin Carter
Shirley Jackson is an excellent horror author and Eimear McBride's first novel/collection of poetry is a work of art.
Bentley Bennett
thanks bro
Anthony Reed
Am I the only one who really, really wants to eat her ass?
Cameron Nelson
THIS Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece
Josiah Smith
Elena Ferrante - read her Neapolitan novels, friend.