ITT: Your favourite female writers

[Anonymous No.15011625]

Pic related is mine, imo she btfo's every other fantasy writer out there, yes that includes Tolkien and GRRM.

[Anonymous No.15011683]

Virginia Woolf is the only right answer

[Anonymous No.15011704]

Is Anne Tyler good?

[Anonymous No.15011717]

>>15011625
Jane Austen.

[Anonymous No.15011729]

>>15011625
Donna Tartt is incredible

[Anonymous No.15011740]

Aelia Eudocia

I have seen many wonders in my life, countless,
But who, noble Clibanus, however many his mouths, could proclaim
Your might, when born a worthless mortal? But rather
It is right for you to be called a new fiery ocean, Paean and parent, provider of sweet streams.

[Anonymous No.15011758]

>>15011625

[Anonymous No.15011776]

They forced me to read a bunch of non males back in school.
The only one I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. The rest were pure cancer.

[Anonymous No.15011783]

>>15011740
This is interesting, i'm quite embarrassed that i've read a good amount of Greek and Roman stuff yet I managed to be completely ignorant of this woman's existence until this minute, a quick look over at Goodreads shows a book being published on this year.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39391101-in-her-own-words
I'll stick it on the want to read list.

[Anonymous No.15011784]

>>15011625
Goddamn shoes on the chair pig fuckery scum

[Anonymous No.15011805]

Tove Jansson, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Bronte sisters, Mary Ruefle, Elena Garro, Yoko Ogawa, Mieko Kawakami, George Eliot.

>>15011776
>Evelyn Waugh

that's a penis haver.

[Anonymous No.15011813]

>>15011625
suzanne collins

[Anonymous No.15011836]

>>15011625
One crazy thing about her is that she writes incredibly well in children's lit, YA, and adult literature. She can pretty much do it all. That being said my favourite is George Eliot, sometimes Middlemarch feels like God wrote it.

[Anonymous No.15011877]

O’Connor or Welty

[Anonymous No.15011965]

Women’s writing is mostly middle class college educated western white women complaining that life is unfair.
It’s funny at first but gets pretty tedious after a while.

[Anonymous No.15011973]

>>15011965
uhhhhh are u describing the meme trilogy?

[Anonymous No.15011993]

>>15011965
Half of what this board likes is navel gazing doomershit so I guess they should read more women then.

[Anonymous No.15012005]

>>15011813
kek

[Anonymous No.15012080]

>>15011973
>>15011993
Nobody complains as much as women.

[Anonymous No.15012088]

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

[Anonymous No.15012097]

Edith Wharton! I love how atmospheric her novels are, and her descriptions. Here's one that sticks in my head often: "...it was the careless powerful look he had, in spite of a lameness checking each step like the jerk of a chain"
Female authors are great when they aren't drowning in a teacup of self-pity, in my experience.

[Anonymous No.15012161]

Charlotte Bronte is severely underrated. Her writing is so comfortable and pleasant to read. She had a tremendous vocabulary.

[Anonymous No.15012187]

Rachilde

[Anonymous No.15012566]

>>15011625
I have read basically no women outside of To Kill a Mockingbird and Sappho's fragments, not even doing it on purpose desu it's just books by women don't catch my eye and the canon is mostly male.
Might just read women for a year desu, pretend i'm some man hating young woman and i'll read whatever she would read. Might be a good experiment for my own writing/characterisation ability.

[Anonymous No.15012761]

Stein, Young, Anna Kavan, Acker. Only dykes (basically men) make good writers.

[Anonymous No.15012771]

>>15011625
Earthsea is a bit too didactic to blow up Tolkien, but she is certainly better than nearly all other speculative writers.

[Anonymous No.15012784]

>>15012080
Jewish men.

[Anonymous No.15012792]

>>15011625
George Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ayn Rand, Camille Paglia

[Anonymous No.15012833]

I've never read a female writer before, because I prefer reading the Greats, the Roman Republicans being my favorite. A couple lesser writers might be worth reading, I guess, just to compare them to the Greats.

[Anonymous No.15012843]

>>15011625
I think I've only read a single book written by a female author and that was Frankenstein. Mary Shelley is based

[Anonymous No.15013169]

Marguerite Yourcenar

[Anonymous No.15013629]

I’ve been boycotting female authors and directors ever since the ‘no boys allowed’ showings of Wonder Woman.

[Anonymous No.15013649]

O'Connor
imo the best American 20th-century short story writer

[Anonymous No.15013675]

Rand

[Lamb No.15013934]

Han Kang
I would include Rand as well for being someone whose writings were a test of my maturity and a gateway into superior ideas after rejecting her, but I can't honestly say she's a good *writer*

[Anonymous No.15013946]

>>15013629
Read whatever you want, but you fell for an obvious false flag.

[Anonymous No.15014048]

>>15011625

[Anonymous No.15014350]

>>15013649
What’s your favorite story?

[Anonymous No.15014381]

Lydia Davis

[Anonymous No.15014403]

>>15011625
1) George Eliot
2) Willa Cather
3) Ursula Le Guin

[Anonymous No.15014590]

>>15011625
Faggot. The fact that you think btfo'ing GRRM is a feat just shows that you have no fucking idea what you're talking about
when it comes to fantasy as a genre and the fact that you can't appreciate Tolkien just means you're practically illiterate. Try Kipling, Lieber, Howard, Peake, Vance, Dunsany, Clarke, Mieville, and Moorcock.

Woolf, Austen, Dickinson, Eliot, Shelley, Bronte sisters, and O'Connor are basically the only right answers to your question.

[Anonymous No.15014715]

>>15011625
Jenny Erpenbeck -- lucid, gnomic German reminiscent of Peter Handke's that lends itself well to translation

[Anonymous No.15014832]

>>15011729
>Donna Tartt is incredible
Yes, anon. Yes she is.

[Anonymous No.15014855]

>>15014590
Le Guin btfo of all those writers, particularly Mieville, who's trash.

[Anonymous No.15015165]

>>15011625
> female
> writers
Kek

[Anonymous No.15015266]

>>15014855
>Guin
>Better than Kipling
Ya, you're a retard.

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>>15015266
What makes Kipling better?

[Anonymous No.15016353]

>>15013169
Fuck yes. Came to post this.

[Anonymous No.15016369]

Le Guin is a one hit wonder with The Dispossessed tbqh. The Lathe of Heaven is a crappy PKD imitation. The Left Hand of Darkness too much a simplistic adventure story with tedious and ill thought out gender politics. Wizard of Earthsea makes Harry Potter look fully realized.

[Anonymous No.15016386]

>>15011704
Bump

[Anonymous No.15016388]

>>15011625
>favourite female writers

[Anonymous No.15016403]

>>15012080
I wonder why...

Anyway, I'm going to shill contemporary writers here because my favourite classic lit ones have already been mentioned. Anne Carson and Sarah Kane >>>>>>>

[Anonymous No.15016405]

>>15016388
>88
mein negger

[Anonymous No.15016409]

>>15013934
I just read The Vegetarian and I loved it, could you recommend anything else by her/similar to her writing?

[Anonymous No.15016415]

>>15011625
Stein is pretty fun stuff

[Anonymous No.15017270]

>>15016403
>I wonder why

If men dislike the way things are, they fuck off to their basements or the desert or the mountains and build a subculture

Women can’t build for shit. They just move in and complain until men get sick of listening to them and change things more to their liking. This makes things too toxic for males and they fuck off to the basement or desert or mountain. Lather, rinse repeat.

[Anonymous No.15017279]

banana yoshimoto, jane bowles, lydia davis, virginia woolf, fleur jaeggy, alice munro

[Anonymous No.15017286]

>>15016409
i'm not that guy, but human acts was great

[Anonymous No.15017408]

I just bought "The Bell Jar" by Plath for this quarantine times, what awaits for me?

[Anonymous No.15018655]

>>15011625
she was a total brainlette

[Anonymous No.15018691]

I want to wife Emily Brontë. Don't really care about the rest of them.