/lit/ - Literature

OP you want to read Dame Rebecca West. My all time favourite writer. Had a talent like noone else for merging history, politics, philosophy and fiction into one.
Her masterpeice is Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, mandatory reading if you're in any way interested in the Balkans or 1930s European politics. Also try A Train Of Powder (about the Nuremberg Trials) or The Meaning of Treason (about the trial of British Nazi collaborators). For her fiction, The Birds Fall Down is good if you're interested in Russia, Orthodox Christianity, or pre-Bolshevik revolutionary groups.
The other big female writer I can recommend is Kathleen Raine. Nature-themed poetry. Her autobiography is good.
And Naomi Mitchison for historical fiction.
If you're worried about coming across any modern day feminist stuff, you don't need to worry about it with these writers.
>"If women had had it in their nature, nothing would have stopped them from writing the works of Plato, or Dante, or Shakespeare... These things are sex-linked, they are characteristics like beards, and they belong to men."
(Kathleen Raine)