/lit/ - Literature

>>15624482
Willa Cather.

porter
tartt
smith
hazzard
daitch
stein
jackson
eliot
bronte sisters

>>15624482
Sigrid Undset wrote about 3000 pages on blood feuds and finding god in sin

Paglia?

Princess Anna Comnena for sure.

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>>15624482
>dick inson
hehehe

>>15624529
>She finished first in the exam for the certificate of "General Philosophy and Logic"; Simone de Beauvoir finished second.
based

>>15624482
Taisha Abelar

>>15624482
Rowling

>>15624508
The last 200 pages of middlemarch are some of the best ever written.

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)

>>15624482
I am a huge fan A.S Byatt. Her novel Possession: A Romance is a must read for anyone interested in Victorian poetry or work in academia

>>15624658
If we are doing non-fiction, add Bethany McLean, CV Wedgwood, and Tuchman

>>15624658
>OP you want to read Dame Rebecca West. My all time favourite writer.

Hehe, your author is english chekist scum. She worked for SIS and the british special services. This is not literature, this is english propaganda, and there is no point in reading this rubbish except for studying english propagandons.

>>15625133
t. Irish or Pajeet trash

>not a single mention of Didion itt so far
Easily the best of the new journalists/essayists crowd, if mostly because she took on a kind of distanced middleground in her writing. Ruthlessly critiqued hippies and the banal establishment.

Her fiction is decent too. Democracy in particular is a wonderful exercise in metafictional and a meditation on the legacy of the Vietnam war.

>>15624482
Gaskell's North and South was good

>>15625133
Don't care. I don't agree with all her politics but by fuck she could write.
>Here in Sveti Naum magic can be worked. The mind accepts it. … The argument here, in Sveti Naum, which has been recognised for a thousand years, is a persuasion towards sanity; a belief that life, painful as it is, is not too painful for the endurance of the mind, and is indeed essentially delightful. It presents that argument in a series of symbols. There is the circle of water, which is a natural substance like the rock of the mountains. There is the other lake, far less in size, which is also of common water, of rain that falls from dark clouds and runs down the hillsides, but which receives other water of a brighter sort, derived from the springs that flow from a distant mountain. This other water flows as a river through that lake and the great lake, immersed in them yet always distinct, and leaves them with its nature unchanged. There is, besides these lakes and these springs and this river, a circle of green earth, where the grass and the trees grow tall without experience of drought and the herds browse and are never hungry; and besides this circle of earth, which is the extreme of fertility, is a small circle of rock, the concentrated extreme of barrenness. On this rock there has been built a square of squat, dark, strong buildings. In the centre is the strongest, squattest, darkest of them all. This building is divided into two parts; in the one there are light and people who can by singing and ritual evoke the thoughts and feelings which are to human beings as water is to the grass and trees and turf, in the other there are darkness and people who need this refreshment.

>>15624482
MFK Fisher
Elisabeth David
Marguerite Yourcenar
Nancy and Jessica Mitford
Marianne Moore
Helen Vendler

>>15624482
Woolf is top tier
>The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flesh of tattered flags kindling in the doom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands. The autumn trees gleam in the yellow moonlight, in the light of harvest moons, the light which mellows the energy of labour, and smooths the stubble, and brings the wave lapping blue to the shore.

>>15624482
Diotima of Mantinea, the first philosopher

>>15624580
feminists eternally btfo by giga brained theologians

>>15624482
> Octavia Butler
especially Parable of the Sower (1993)

Clarice Lispector, homo

>>15625300
to the lighthouse will always be the most beautiful novel I've ever read

>>15625116
>Tuchman
>Russophobic Jew who keeps parroting "muh rossiya bad"

>>15624482
Emily Bronte is one of my favorite ever poets

if you like o'connor check out carson mccullers

>>15624482
Edith Wharton. Not her novels (except Age of Innocence) but her short stories. Here's a sample from library of america

>Exactly a century ago, Wharton turned her disdain for “devourers” into one of her more successful stories, “Xingu,” which takes aim particularly at the society women who gather in salons “to pursue Culture in banks” and to clash personalities rather than discuss literature. The occasions during which the group’s members discuss books are dreadful enough, but when they invite a famous author to meet with them, hilarity ensues. Or, as the Wharton fan at the blog A Striped Armchair puts it, “it’s a sharp satire of the intellectually pretentious that is as relevant today as it was one hundred years ago. And it’s funny enough to hold its own against a Wilde play!”

http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2011/01/xingu.html

>>15624482
I just downloaded some Gertrude Stein. Bitch seemed unhinged.

>>15624482
what the fuck is this thread? not one person saying some dumb misogynistic response like 'that's a contradiction lol'. is this what 4chan used to be like before the /pol/ explosion?

>>15626054
>rent free

>>15624482
Tamora Pierce

Her latest few books have been crap, but the Circle of Magic and most of the Tortall books are solid stuff.

>>15624696
I enjoyed what she had to say about Lolita in that documentary - she seems cool

'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'

>>15624482

Edith Stein

>>15626102
Oh, she's great! She's one of the few sane feminists I have ever read, and I really like how her feminist views don't bleed into her fiction.

>>15624482
Austen
Brontes
O’Connor
Didion (sometimes)
Lacey
Porter (sometimes)
Munro (sometimes)
Woolf
McCarthy
Kael
Dickinson
Bishop
Sexton
Notley
West
earlier Smith essays
Sappho (whats left of her)
Byatt
Butler (based afrofuturist, not seething fag)
Gertrude Stein, the most base of all
Ferrante (though desu it’s probably just her husband)
Karen Russell
Ann Beattie in extremely small doses
My gf likes Otessa Mossfegh, but she’s a woman so what does she know

>>15626204
How tf did I forget Eliot. Jesus christ. Now there’s the real GOAT.

>>15624482
damn shame she died so young. I bet she would have still been writing had she made it to old age.

>>15626072
Yes, her.

Eudora Welty wrote some great short fiction. Haven't read any of her novels yet.

>>15626307
Ponder Heart's good

>>15624482
Flan-Flan a cute

>>15624482
Your mom.

>>15626508
not really
after years of lupus she ended up looking like a cave-troll in her 30s

we all know what her real contribution is...
a chicken that walks backwards
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/do-you-reverse-1/

LUCY ELLMANN

>>15626029
Seconded

>>15624508
>>15624614
>>15626207
>eliot
Nietzsche btfo'd her

>>15624482
>ctrl+f "annie dillard"
>no results
Annie Dillard, ya dumb dumbs

Haraway

>>15624482
What is your favorite of flannery's short stories?

>>15624482
Iris Murdoch.

>>15624498
fpbp

>>15624508
you've never read anything beyond tender buttons if you think gertrude stein is good

I can't wait to have this thread again in 2 days.

>>15626041
house of mirth is one of the better novels written about hitting the wall

>>15626054
we don't hate women authors, we hate authors who's sole selling point is that they're women

>>15626307
this. shame everyone reads flanney and skips eudora (no disrespect to miss o'connor)

>>15624482
Ayn Rand.

Carson McCullers

>>15624482
Mary Shelley obviously

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>>15624696
>I am a huge fan A.S Byatt. Her novel Possession: A Romance is a must read for anyone interested in Victorian poetry or work in academia
I would disagree, if only slightly. It's not a must-read, and while it's pretty, her technique is a little... boddice-ripper, perhaps, for my taste, and ultimately in Possession she bites of noticeably more than she can chew. It's not a bad book, but it's far from perfect.

>>15626041
This, all the way. My favourite short ever is her The Other Two.

Also recommending The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard.

>>15625251
>greentext
Showing us... what? She can obviously write sentences, but that excerpt was almost completely devoid of anything I'd consider style in the positive sense of that word. It reads like noname YA fantasy from the 70's. I was going to look into her until you posted that :/

>>15624482

If you are a fan of early Continental philosophy or Husserl and like Catholic apologetics, check out Edith Stein.

>>15625315
The Virgin Feminist vs the Chaste Chadette Catholic Theologian

>>15626526
She's still very much beautiful tbqh. Yeah her face is pretty fucked up, but any meaningful sort of beauty isn't skin deep. She's got a very quick wit and a soul like a pearl. That's all I really need in respect to women.

>>15626054
Newfag lol

>>15627879
Based

>>15625422
this

Taylor Cadwell

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>>15624529
Maybe it's just me but these two look eerily similar.

>>15624482
Agatha Christi

>>15627159
Why was Nietzsche so incredibly butthurt about England?

>>15624482

H.D.

Due to their inability to create, every single woman has a superior male counterpart, making it completely useless to waste your time reading anything they've ever written.

>>15627821
What's the best bible translation?

>>15628079
t. virgin

>>15628293
she looks like the gymnast in that Seinfeld episode

>>15628339
>I don't like someone's post. Better call him a virgin to cope.
Sad but not unexpected.

>>15626029
>>15627893
based unconsummated lesbian

>>15627770
Which one of her works is your favourite?

>>15628382
"Under the Net" is a good place to start. Lighter fare, but offers much food for thought.

any attractive female writers or is that just not a thing

>>15627821
lmao lovecraft had a cat named niggerman XD

Females can't write.

Get over it.

>>15628079
>She's got a very quick wit and a soul like a pearl.
She was LITERALLY A FUCKING RACIST ....PEAR MAH ASSS.....FUCK OFF WHITE BOI

Djuna Barnes, Mary McCarthy, Marguerite Yourcenar

>>15627973
come to think, I haven’t seen a meg thread posted in a while.
maybe all the megfags killed them selves. I really hope so.

>>15624482
Of the 61 books in my library, 3 were written by a woman. And I'm not planning on keeping them

>>15627159
what a fag

>>15624482
Based thread. I'd add Cristina Campo and Hildegarde of Bingen to the recs.

marilynne robinson
Doris Lessing (who isn't quite the rabid feminist she's often portrayed as) Angela Carter

>>15630184
have sex

>>15624482
George Eliot, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, Iris Murdoch, Leonora Carrington, Anna Kavan, Sylvina Ocampo, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, Ursula Le Guin, Amparo Dávila, Unica Zurn, Hiroko Oyamada, Shirley Jackson, Donna Tartt, Jennifer Egan, Tatyana Tolstaya, Catherine Dunn, Yoko Ogawa, Yoko Tawada, Anaïs Nin, Jeanette Winterson, Renata Adler

>>15625487
thoughts on the middle section? I agree that it's probably the most beautiful I've read

>>15624498
This

>>15624498
Willa Cather is indeed a master of fiction.

Christa Wolf you absolute fucking retarded plebs

Go read Medea and Kassandra right fucking now!
I could never have imagined how super subhuman this board actually is.