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Name 1 (ONE) good female writer

>> No.9718849

sappho

>> No.9718964

Sylvia Plath

>> No.9718966

shakespeare

>> No.9718975

Woolf

>> No.9718977

>>9718848
Emily Bronte

>> No.9718978

>>9718848
Emily Dickinson is #1 imo

>> No.9718995

Munro

>> No.9718997

>>9718966
>implying he wasn't the italian man Frollo Crollalanza

>> No.9719000

>>9718848
Edith Wharton

>> No.9719020

Marie-Louise Kaschnitz

>> No.9719030
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Flannery O'Connor

>> No.9719042

anne carson, sheila watson, alice munro - canada just shits out these seemingly bland middle aged white women who carefully read literature their entire lives and then make serious contributions to the landscape.

i think anne carson in particular is really cool if a little autistic

>> No.9719054

>>9718849
>>9718978
These two are pretty fucking majestic

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Tove Jansson

>> No.9719211

Djuna Barnes

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>>9718848
Really, OP?

>> No.9719494

>>9719434
OP said 'good', but hey, this is /lit/, I wouldn't expect you to know how to read.

>> No.9719509

>>9719494
My mistake. I posted "great" instead of "good."

>> No.9719512

I've liked the two books by Cristina Garcia I've read. She deals primarily with Cuba.

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Comfy af desu

>> No.9719549

Iris Murdoch.

>> No.9719573

Doris Lessing

>> No.9719590

Might as well ask here, what are some good mystery books by women?

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>> No.9720029

>>9719211
so much this

>> No.9720073

>>9718848
marguerite yourcenar

>> No.9720077

>>9719709
this was a question on jeopardy today.

>> No.9720083

Elsa Morante

>> No.9720087

Octavia Butler

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Still waiting

>> No.9720250

Flannery O'connor, Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Elena Ferrante, George Eliot, Carson Mccullers

>> No.9720264

>>9720077
are you a time traveller

>> No.9720270

>>9718848
Shelley??

>> No.9720282

>>9720270
Mary? her books are so fucking easy to ruin for yourself after learning their ALL about her daddy issues.

>> No.9720287

>>9719590
There's this obscure writer called Agatha Christie.