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What are some good female authors?

Most of my favorite authors (Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Proust, Pynchon) are men, and I want to balance my taste in terms of gender

>> No.3712616

>>3712600
>and I want to balance my taste in terms of gender

This is nonsensical. The vast majority of great authors have been men. It will never be "balanced" and there is no harm in having "imbalanced" taste in this regard.

>> No.3712620

Woolf, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers

so fucking good

>> No.3712622

Jane Austen

seriously

>> No.3712627

>>3712616
I know it is, and I don't want to come off as a feminist/check your priv fucker but I would like to have a handful of female authors to love just for perspective's sake

I've yet to read any of the Brontes or Austen. I read To the Lighthouse whichI actually didn't find all that praiseworthy... Do you think I may like some of Woolf's other stuff?

>> No.3712634

virginia woolf
simone de beauvoir

>> No.3712638

Anais Nin all day

All of Pynchon's works were written by three different females.

>> No.3712640

George Eliot

>> No.3712652

>>3712627

>I read To the Lighthouse whichI actually didn't find all that praiseworthy

You're not ready yet.

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>>3712634
>simone de beauvoir

>> No.3712671

>>3712652
Ready for what? Literature? I read Ulysses a few months before in a short amount of time and found it absolutely wonderful, for what that's worth. To the Lighthouse is just a philosophy-light copycat version of Proust

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3712689

>>3712671

End yourself immediately, please.

Thank you.

>> No.3712705

>>3712627
If you're going with the Bronte sisters I'd recommend Charlotte over Emily (she's dull as fuck).

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>>3712622
>>3712627
>>3712705
>Brontes
>Austen
Into the trash it goes!

>> No.3712743

Maria Edgeworth is every bit as good as Jane Austen, although she's since fallen out of fashion.

>> No.3712746

What does /lit/ think of Margaret Atwood?

>> No.3712753

Marie de France if you like medieval literature

>> No.3712782

Ann Beattie's Chilly Scenes of Winter is worth a read.

>> No.3712798

>>3712689
Stay buttmad, anon-who-can't-into-proust

>> No.3712810

>>3712798

>reads proust
>suddenly all high modernism is proustspew

tale as old as time

>> No.3712834

>>3712798
>everyone who likes To The Lighthouse just can't into Proust
holy shit, take a step away from the keyboard and appreciate the absolutely insanity of that comment