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Are there any female writers worth reading other than Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson?

>> No.13527789

Jane Austen

>> No.13527794

Sappho and Rand

>> No.13527797

>>13527749
Butterfly.

>> No.13527798

>>13527789
You mean the woman that even Charles Dickens called too melodramatic?

>> No.13527803

>>13527749
That's only counting the Anglosphere. Look beyond and you'll find good things as well.

>> No.13527808

>>13527794
>>13527797
based and dyke-pilled
>>13527798
This. Austen a shit

>> No.13527838

Austen is the great pleb filter. Mastery of prose, character, tone, theme, structure, dialogue etc. But it involves girls and girl stuff

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13527853

>>13527749
Sylvia plath

>> No.13527866

Wittkopf
Erpenbeck

>> No.13527870

>>13527749
The Brontë sisters, Madame de Lafayette, Madame de Staël, Simone Weil, Simone de Beauvoir, Cristina Campo, Rachel Bespaloff, Hildegard of Bingen. Most of the last names are philosophers or writing with philosophical problems in mind, so I hope you're not a brainlet.

>> No.13527871

>>13527749
I enjoyed Elizabeth Gaskell and Christina Rossetti

>> No.13528027

>>13527838
>girl and girl stuff
Elaborate?

>> No.13528050

Are there any female authors that don’t specialise in “womanly” topics? I don’t really care for romance

>> No.13528091

>>13527749
Mary Wollstonecraft