/lit/ - Literature

I like Yourcenar and Tove Jansson.
Can’t say they’re like Le Guin. Woolf is definitely quality you should check out. Christie is genre. Popular old mysteries if you like.

>>20453740
I’ve only read To the Lighthouse, but I loved it. Virginia Woolf's modernist style and prose are very clear and crisp, easy to understand. You should read it along with, Orlando and Mrs. Dalloway

I’ve never seen anyone shit on Ursula Le Guin, my only complaint against her is she isn’t as good as the male influences she has.

Here’s some authors who I would consider good, female, but also having numerous male counterparts who are superior.

>Mary Sidney,

Sister of the poet Phillip Sidney, having wrote translations of psalms, her own poetry as well as translation of other works, her work in the Sidney psalter is very excellent and all accounts tell us her and her brother would often work together on major pieces of each other.

>Ethel Stefana Drower

Chiefly a scholar of all things middle eastern and one of the best sources on mandaeanism, did major contributions in obtaining and translating their scriptures, she was also a poet and novelist whose prose style was very much trained on the copious amounts of middle eastern material she consumed.

>Katherine Phillips

Female poetess, no special aspect she’s just good at what she does.

>Gaspara Stampa

Italian female poetess, same as the above.

>Marguerite Porete,

Christian mystic woman, her writing is effectively a kind of religious prose poetry.

>Hildegard of Bingen

Decent quality hymns

>Jane Leade,

Mystic who based her ideas on boehme

>Evelyn underhill

Student of Arthur machen, both in terms of prose style and in religious and occult matters, her works on platonism and Christianity are pretty good.

>Edith Stein,

Mystic and Catholic phenomenologist, furthers the theories of husserl.

>Bhairavi/Devi/kali,

The canon of tantrik religious poetry attributed to the female goddess, which is in all likelihood written by a multitude of authors, some female in the act of being possessed others normally.

>Marie-Louise von Franz,

Direct student of Jung who Jung considered would complete his work, her work on the aurora consurgens of Aquinas is worth the read.
There are of course other female writers, I find that females lose the worst aspects of their writhing styles by being some sort of scholar or having an extreme dedication to method or theory or the like. the verse and prose styles of the above authors while very good, it is still not the best in class we have in history and still not enough in terms of quantity to back seeking out females in particular instead of just coming across females.

>>20453900
>I’ve never seen anyone shit on Ursula Le Guin,
Whenever I try to post her on /sffg/ people call he shit because she’s a woman.

>>20453931
Ah I don’t stick around the genre general threads, a lot of what they consume and write is basically just light novels fused with the incestual grandchildren of Tolkien, at least that’s the impression I get from whenever I’ve read the works posted there, seen the royal road stuff or had any contact with the contemporary materials.

In general le guin is respected at minimum as an essayist and her actual fiction has a ton of pastiche, now she writes in her essays her influences so this is fine, as she still manages her own prose style. but still.

>see who is posting
>facepalm

>>20453740
Only female author I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh
All the rest were pure cancer

>>20453955
>All the rest were pure cancer
Don't be so dramatic.

>>20453972
Don’t ever reply to one of my posts again

>>20453740
Patricia Highsmith
Mainly just because she was redpilled on the tiny hat enthusiast question :^)

>>20453997
If I ever see you copy & paste another low-effort post again I absolutely will.

>>20453740
not read her. don't rate woolf or christie, BUT elizabeth taylor (the english novelist not mrs. richard burton) & blixen are some all timers

>>20454015
based, and her short stories are really fucking dark

>>20454015
>I’m a one issue man
We’re so tired of your cult. Why aren’t you in Ukraine?

>>20454019
What novel is that from?