/FAG/- Female Authors General #1

[Anonymous No.20283268]

ITT talk about and share your favourite women writers.

What is your favourite book written by a woman and how do you think they compare generally to male authors?

[Anonymous No.20283290]

Where's Henry James?

[Anonymous No.20283320]

Savitri Devi is my favorite. Just finished up gold in the furnace. It was great

[Anonymous No.20283332]

The only female writer I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.

[Anonymous No.20283336]

>>20283290
Still asking for directions

[Anonymous No.20283342]

>>20283320
Good morning sirs please do the needful and redeem white skin

[Anonymous No.20283348]

For me it's Jane Porter. Regency era novelist who's novels were once quite popular but have since faded into obscurity. Thaddeus of Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs are solid adventure stories, the latter of which was one of John Adams' favourite books.

[Anonymous No.20283351]

>>20283332
>All the rest were pure cancer.
Gosh don't be so dramatic -_-

[Anonymous No.20283360]

>>20283268
I lost respect for Carson McCullers once I found out she was a proto lesbian incel.

She had sex with men (which let’s face it, is no great accomplishment. Men will fuck just about anything) but she preferred women. I just can’t respect a lesbian who in her entire life never got any pussy.

[Anonymous No.20283364]

>>20283268
Nice try sneaking in that fetal alcohol syndrome faced potato at bottom right

[Anonymous No.20283372]

>>20283360
I am still here btw and you're still not funny. Joke died a while ago. Move on.

[Anonymous No.20283386]

>>20283268
Sheila Heti. I've never read any of her books but I got her blackout drunk and beat that pussy up.

[Anonymous No.20283442]

>>20283268
Who's left of Rooney?

[Anonymous No.20283449]

>>20283442
Stein?

[Anonymous No.20283464]

>>20283449
Nevermind she’s the ugly dyke on the left. Forgot how ugly she was.

[Anonymous No.20283487]

>>20283351
Don’t ever reply to one of my posts again

[Anonymous No.20283519]

>>20283268
I think Tartt is the only one I would fuck
I wouldn’t marry any
And I would kill the rest

[Anonymous No.20283547]

>>20283519
I'd fuck the shit out of Didion. She was really petite and I would coom to making her scream.

[Anonymous No.20283564]

>>20283268
I'm going through To the Lighthouse by Woolf right now and it's pretty good if you have the stomach for stream of consciousness. There are penetrating investigations of human nature in particular forms throughout. I especially like this passage where Mrs. Ramsay identifies her true self as present in solitude, too expansive to be bound to a personality, too deep to be anything but a moving core of darkness, identifying more with inanimate objects. I also want to be like Bankes but I am probably most like Tansley.

[Anonymous No.20283577]

>>20283547
She smoked though
I have no tolerance for the weak willed

[Anonymous No.20283606]

>>20283577
If she smokes she pokes so it's all gravy.

[Anonymous No.20283633]

Whenever I say Paglia jannies freak out.
Pic related was a good shakedown of the problems of the academic world.

[Anonymous No.20283702]

>>20283633
Jannies freak out if u post a Rooney thread these days

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20283715]

she mogs your literary waifu

[Anonymous No.20283729]

This thread need more Blavatsky

[Anonymous No.20283736]

>>20283268
These are all good writers, but I am missing Hegel.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20283750]

>>20283729
Hate her, terrible new ageist, one of the most damaging writers in western esoteric history, I would say I hate dion fortune similarly but she isn’t anywhere nearly as damaging with misinformation, from misunderstanding of karma, lies about Tibetan material, birth of the new age, the lie of the left hand path, all of these things and more can be traced back to Blavatsky’s invention. If you want good female mystics, Evelyn underhill and Jane leade are good. As is Marguerite Porete.

[Anonymous No.20283770]

>>20283268
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHHAHAHAAHA
YOU GUYS ACTUALLY READ WHAT WOMEN WRITE? OH NO NO NO NO HAHAHAHAHAA

[Anonymous No.20283803]

some of ottessa moshfeghs stuff is good if a little mainstream

[Anonymous No.20283804]

>>20283332
This is underrated bait. You deserved those quads.

[Anonymous No.20283817]

>>20283442
>>20283449
Elizabeth Gaskell

>>20283715
>>20283750
Take your trip off and maybe and can take your opinion seriously. Stupid faggot.

[Anonymous No.20283868]

>>20283750
I read Blavatsky more like fiction, so I don't really care if she misunderstands stuff. As far as I'm concerned, all occult literature reveal glimmers of truth but are loaded with opinions that can't necessary be trusted. That said, I'll look into the other writers you recommended

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.20283896]

>>20283868
Kenneth grant’s typhonian trilogies are the most kino esotericism-as-fiction lit, due to him knowingly mixing them for religious purposes.

[Anonymous No.20283996]

>>20283268
My favorite female writers are the Bronte sisters and George Eliot (AKA Mary Ann Evans).
I think women tend to be inferior writers to men. Like Paglia said, “On the intelligence spectrum, it’s been shown again and again that women occupy the great middle of the IQ spectrum. But with men you have them turning up at the opposite extremes. You have male geniuses and you have male psychotics. That’s why one of my great sentences is that ‘There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.’”
That being said, I think men have to be in touch with their feminine side to be good writers. Although women are inferior writers, many of their qualities (creativity, empathy, etc.) are essential to writing. This is why, I think, so many of the greatest writers of all time have been gay men.

[Anonymous No.20285163]

>>20283268
Dickinson, Eliot and Austen are the best, Woolf has great, beautiful prose.

The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute, and Muriel Spark’s poems, are a couple of the lesser known ones that I’ve read.

[Anonymous No.20285230]

Going in columns
MKF
FKM
KMF
MFK

[Anonymous No.20285312]

>>20285230
you would kill O'Connor but fuck Gaskell?

[Anonymous No.20285346]

>>20285312
I don't know any of these /HAG/s names

[Anonymous No.20285413]

>>20285346
weak

[Anonymous No.20285483]

>>20283268
>Like Mary K. Le Guin's feminist sci-fi angle
>Get called a fag on 4chan

Fuck, bros, I just think women have it bad. Men clearly got the better end of the stick when it comes right down to it.

[Anonymous No.20285493]

>>20285483
anon I've been saying this for years

[Anonymous No.20285511]

>>20285483
>anon gets called a fag
>therefore women have it tougher

Wtf kind of logic is this?

[Anonymous No.20285512]

>women
kys

[Anonymous No.20285531]

>>20285493
>>20285511
I read her short story "The Matter of Seggri", and I was in a funk for the next few days. It was so visceral, and her writing style really transports you into her world and puts you right in the middle of it. You can tell she's a very intelligent and experienced anthropologist (she was a professor or doctor of anthropology, I believe, and her parents were big time anthropology professors who taught her all kinds of shit), because the characters are all extremely complex and 3-dimensional, and the implications of her hypotheticals are always fleshed out and complete.

In "The Matter of Seggri", only 1 out of 12 male births are viable, and so the whole planet is a female dominated society, and much like how women are mostly valued for their appearances and their ability to be mothers, men on this planet are valued mostly for their appearances and their virility. There's this one scene I keep reading over and over again, and basically, even though women have all the power in this world, the system also pits man against man, and finally, when one oppressive group of men takes it too far against another group of more timid men, there's this big revolt, and the women finally come in to quell the riot, but when they arrive, everything's quiet, but there's scenes of carnage everywhere, and the more timid men are sitting there quietly covered in blood, and their oppressors are found ripped into pieces or nailed into the floorboards with stakes and mallets, and it's such a cool scene that I'm not even bothering to slow down and compose my thoughts or edit my sentences because there's just so many layers and complexities to the story I'm referring to that I'd have to sit here for hours in order to explain the details, and I really can't be fucked to do that, but just check it out, please. It's really really good, and every time I try to find discussion on this short story, there's nothing to be found. Fuck, man. What a good fucking story. It's like 3 to 4 short stories rolled into one bigger narrative surrounding her fictional world. Check it out, I linked it and everything.

https://feministdigitalarchiveh2.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/the-matter-of-seggri-by-ursula-k-le-guin/

>>20285511
Nah man, I mean I get called a fag just for implying men have it better than women. In my experience, guys who say that shit are simply failures at the game. If you're fit, sociable, intelligent, and male, you should realize just how much better you generally have it than women do.

[Anonymous No.20285535]

women can't write

[Anonymous No.20285560]

>>20285535
Because society infantilizes them. The ones who had the talent and the drive to educate themselves out of their societal expectations are all actually quite talented and exceptional. After all, it's not like you have a talent for writing just because you're male.

[Anonymous No.20285576]

>>20285531
That story sounds great, I'll definitely read it.

[Anonymous No.20287446]

>>20285512
cringe

[Anonymous No.20287465]

>>20283332
Based and blesséd post

[Anonymous No.20287556]

Do O'Connor's stories have the black humor that people say they do? I'm hesitant to read her, not because she's a woman, but because she's a southerner.
Also for me it's Sarah Kane. Check her out if want a literary edgelord par excellence.

[Anonymous No.20287602]

>>20283268
I connect with Virginia Woolf because I also have an attractive side profile but am hideous from the front.

[Anonymous No.20287670]

>>20287556
Yes, they do feature black humour but it's not funny. I suspect the woman would have been an active twitter user had she been alive today- a tradcath and WPOC larper, as well as a JBP stan ofc.

If you want a little taste of this midwit's humour check out picrel; my autism prevents me from knowing whether this is meant to be funny or insightful, but either way you get the point that this woman was not very witty (or very attractive).

[Anonymous No.20287710]

>>20285531
Ursula is a god. I just finished Left Hand of Darkness and was stupefied.

[Anonymous No.20287773]

Call me plain Jane but I just started Woofle and I got my money's worth

[Anonymous No.20287799]

Woolf is awesome. I think she has a great dry sense of humor and pokes fun of her and her society but no one seems to notice. They see her as stuffy

Bronte sisters. Enough said. Wuthering Heights is one of the most masculine books. Jane Eyre had me tearing up like a bitch every chapter. Villette is underrated as well. Haven’t got into Anne yet. I despise epistolary novels

Yourcenar-Memoirs of Hadrian is a must read. She sold her soul to the devil to write it. One of the best books of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.20288344]

>>20287773
only scratched the surface, do better

[Anonymous No.20288596]

>>20283804
eyes skimmed over it thank you so much

[Anonymous No.20288622]

>>20287799
Hi again Woolf anon, you replied to me when I posted that I was reading Mrs Dalloway. Agree about Wuthering Heights, I was taken aback by how intense it was given the time and the place it occupies culturally.

[Anonymous No.20289317]

>>20283268
I greatly enjoyed A Visit from the Goon Squad. Half the reason I bout it in the first place was because the penultimate chapter is a 70 page PowerPoint presentation, would highly recommend although the first chapter is fairly boring compared to the way the rest of the chapters are written.

[Anonymous No.20289373]

I like to kiss a woman on the pussy, I like to read a literature by a lesbian or an autistic sickly Victorian, I like to give a woman a flower

[Anonymous No.20289843]

[Anonymous No.20289850]

>>20289843
Ani DiFranco?

[Anonymous No.20289929]

>>20289850
Renata Adler. I hat Ani.

[Anonymous No.20290011]

Just read Age Of Innocence by Wharton and holy fuck I was blown away by it. Absolute romantic / social commentary kino