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Who is the female Shakes? Austen seems like the best candidate

>> No.13944869
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Female Shakespeare of philosophy: Judith Butler
Female Shakespeare of literature: Harper Lee

>> No.13944890

>>13944869
>Harper Lee
>only one work of note
>shakespeare
I liked to kill a mocking bird but come one now

>> No.13945556

>>13944858

George Eliot

>> No.13945663

>>13945556
this

>> No.13945876

>>13944858
George Eliot

>> No.13946224

In matters of language is Emily Dickinson.

>> No.13946501

George Eliot, no competition

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>>13944858
The amount of writing that Virginia Woolf did during her life is incredible, and of what I've read it's all quality.

>> No.13946829

>>13944858
There isn't one, and there isn't a German, a Chinese, or a Bantu one either. Accomplishment is accomplishment.

>> No.13946871

>>13946829
who is your favorite female author, anon?

>> No.13946996

>>13946871
LeGuin, then Tolstaya.

>> No.13947011

>>13944858
Sigrid Undset is my /lit/ queen.

>> No.13947012

Marlowe

>> No.13947057

>>13945556
>>13945876
>>13946501
Eliot has very little in common with Shakespeare stylistically. I'd say that Eliot's more a candidate for the female Tolstoy.

Dickinson is more comparable to Shakespeare.