/lit/ - Literature

>>21036057
Frankstein and To The Lighthouse.

/lit/ usually prefers depressing tragedies so you can't find anything better than Wuthering heights really.

>>21036057
yes, of course, half the people who ever lived were women

Jane Eyre!

>>21036057
>Are there any other books written by women that are worth reading?
Yes. It's called "The Unknown God" by Deirdre Carabine.

Middlemarch

>>21036085
WHAT? Speak up

>>21036057
Cold Comfort Farm by stella gibbons
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Wormwood by poppy z. Brite
The Italian by Anne Radcliffe
Northanger Abbey by jane austen
The haunting of hill house by Shirley jackson
The complete short stories of Flannery o’conner

>>21036214
JAAAAAAAAAAAANE EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYRE

>>21036230
Oh I heard good things about that book

>>21036230
I CAN'T HEAR YOU I JUST GOT BACK FROM A CONCERT YOURE GONNA HAVE TO SAY IT LOUDER

>>21036232
one of my favourite books ever - if you liked Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre will be right up your street.

give me more kino tragedies, I wanna feel depressed

>>21036057
Any classic written by a woman is worth it.

How are Jane Austin's novels? I don't think I will ever be confident enough in my masculinity to buy and read Pride and Prejudice, but are some of her other novels worth reading?

>>21036057
Honestly one of my favorite books and its written by a woman.

>>21036588
I’m a woman and before i read austen i thought she’s gonna be my favorite author, i read persuasion and it’s genuinely one of the worst books i’ve ever read. I’m afraid to read her others books bc i feel like they’re just as bad and boring as persuasion

>>21036057
>never trust the gypsies
what does bronte mean by this?

>>21036616
read Emma that one is absolutely based. Northanger Abbey is quite good as well

>>21036057
Memoirs of Hadrian

>>21036057
/lit/ usually prefers depressing tragedies so you can't find anything better than Wuthering heights really.

>>21036195
Is middlemarch a good read? A lot of people seem to think it's very boring. I unironically really value the opinions of /lit/ when it comes to women authors because if people on here like a work by a woman, it must truly be good.

>>21036195
>>21037500
Middlemarch is probably the best thing in the Enlgish canon. George Eliot was a real genius. She studied Hegel to develop this novel. People who think its boring are just too scared to admit its too difficult for their feeble brains to comprehend. Also you're a retard and your austism shows

>>21036272
I liked Wuthering Heights because it was grimdark and everyone was a cunt, and Jane Eyre is supposedly more of a traditional romance with happy ending

>>21036061
Fpbp

Wuthering Heights is such a great refutation of ‘write what you know’ considering Emily Brontë had never been in a romantic relationship.

>>21036057
>bring a scouser into your home
>tragedy ensues
Many such cases
Sad

>tfw Joseph's dialogue was even less readable in the original edition

>>21036605

I was really disappointed in The Goldfinch, so I don't get her appeal.

Read her poetry.

>>21036057
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
The Lais of Marie de France
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Bell by Iris Murdoch
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

defining your reading list based on sex/gender/whatever is pretty stupid and limiting. shit is shit and gold is gold, doesn't matter where it came from.

>>21039387
>Orlando by Virginia Woolf
>unironically recommending a glorified fetish novel

>>21036616
Yes apparently two people being the same sex isn't grounds for much.

>>21039045
Absolutely hate this shit, especially when it's done today. Because normal English spelling does not reflect speech, much less reflect fucking Received Pronunciation. The arrogance and unreadable stupidity of this. Instead, dialectal words and speech patterns should be used for characterisation. And ofc contractions, including nonstandard ones.

>>21039227
I've read both and The Secret History is much better in my opinion. The Goldfinch definitely drags when he's in New Vegas and I think The Secret History is overall more engaging and funnier as well.

>>21041024
*Vegas
Video games have rotted my brain

>>21036588
Jane Austen was a weirdo cunt. She was a lifelong spinster and very difficult, bitchy woman. From a very young age she put on little plays for her parents about romance. But it was always an ironic, whimsical thing for her, and that never changed even when she began writing novels. She was the original "I'm behind 7 layers of irony" shitposter, so reading her narratives at face value like they're the sincere narrative conceits of genuine emotion is a bad idea. She writes about things she has no personal experience with, just playing with topics she's only dealt with in other people's fiction. That there are women who adore her writing without any notion of the above is very distressing.

>>21037550
It's not that traditional. It's fairly twisted, not as much as Wuthering Heights, but Rochester is hardly a typical romantic hero.

>>21036057
A shop near me sells those Wordsworth Classics editions for £1.99 apiece. The covers are always ugly but the text is the same...

Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein and Dracula are the three novels I've enjoyed most, which is incredibly ironic given that I loathe both women and the Irish

>>21036057
Villete by Charlotte Brontë. Personally, I liked it more than Jane Eyre.

>>21036057
No, just that one

>>21040014
What are you talking about?

>>21036061
These

>>21036616
post tits or gtfo, you know the rules.

>>21036057
Only psycho women make good writers, as you have proven.