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[Anonymous No.20633208]

A thread to discuss female novelists and poets.

[Anonymous No.20633216]

Last night I started Jane Eyre, I'm only a few chapters in so no spoilers please!
So far I'm taken with just how captivating it is as a story. Some books take a while to win you over but I was hooked her from the very start.
What is it with these Bronte girls and their dark and disturbing tales... I guess living in dreary Yorkshire didn't help.
As Shakespeare once said: heigh ho, the wind and the rain... for the rain it raineth every day!
I'm happy she defended herself against the spoiled fat kid and I'm glad she fed the hungry robin.
Just as I finished the book introduced me to her schoolmate Helen Burns, who we first encounter reading Johnson's dismal Rasellas
She seems totally buck broken by stoic and christcuck philosophy. She introduces poor Jane to insane and wicked ideas like loving our enemies and contenting ourselves with present suffering and awaiting better circustances in a conventially post-life situation.
I'm not sure if these poisonous ideas later get the better of Jane Eyre, but here she proclaims
>If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should—so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
Her friend explains this is pagan behavior, not fit for a Christian. Revenge is un-Christlike but the cruelity of her former guardian Mrs Reed and that of her new teachers apparently is.
Anyway I personally will never forgive my enemies! Let alone love them! They'll remain in my head forever RENT FREE. My hatred for them grows by the day! FUCK YOU!

It seems to me so far to be written in the most perfect style of English, Wuthering Heights from memory was similar but more rough around the edges... there's no fancy flourishes or any awkward style one needs to adjust themselves to, nothing seems mannered. it's written perfectly, flowing perfectly. I love it!

[Anonymous No.20633228]

God I love my Catholic wife, O'Connor, so much. She also can't go two paragraphs without writing, "nigger" in her texts.

[Anonymous No.20633255]

>>20633228
Ugly woman, ugly words.

[Anonymous No.20633260]

>>20633255
Keep your incel shit out of the chicklit thread you stupid nigger ape.

[Anonymous No.20633261]

>>20633255
Cope, fag. She suffered from Lupus most of her life.

[Anonymous No.20633348]

I'm obligated to post my personal waifu, Carson McCullers, as always, but I would also like to mention Otessa Mosefegh too, author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, as I plan on reading her other novel, EIleen, very soon (you can expect me to post about it in the near furutre). It will be interesting to see how it compares to MYRR, because Sally Rooney is somewhat guilty of repetitive characters and plot accross her novels, and I'm wondering whether Mosfegh can consistently write with quality as well as diversity where Rooney couldn't. I think it would make her one of the best living authors if she could.

But gnerally people on this board are way too dissmissive of contemporary lit, and even more so of contemporary lit authored by women- I haven't read much of it- but from what I have, it absolutely stands up to the regular classics shilled on this board.

>>20633260
Racism outside of /b/ is a bannable offense, chud. Delete this.

[Anonymous No.20633360]

what is your favorite sappho poem

[Anonymous No.20633387]

>>20633348
Post med shelf, troon

[Anonymous No.20633398]

>>20633360
My favorite is the one that exists in its entirety with no points of uncertainty in the text...
OH WAIT

[Anonymous No.20633401]

>>20633387
Uncalled for.

[Anonymous No.20633684]

looking through goodreads to see what women (excluding Brontes) i've read, not many, most of them Asian:
>Catherine Carswell - The Life of Robert Burns
>Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman
>Dương Thu Hương - Paradise of the Blind
>Jiang Yang - Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder"
>Simone Weil - Letter to a Priest
>FH Batacan - Smaller and Smaller Circles
>Mei Zhi - F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
>Xiao Hong - Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin

[Anonymous No.20633949]

BRONTE CHADS RISE UP

[Anonymous No.20635066]

>>20633949
which one?

[Anonymous No.20635131]

>>20635066
All of them but the best one especially. Who else?

[Anonymous No.20635146]

>>20633216
Need to re-read it anon. Only checked it out when I was a dumb college freshmen and I liked it, but I bet it’s much better than I remember.

[Anonymous No.20635152]

>>20635131
Which one is the best one?

[Anonymous No.20635669]

>>20635152
you already know

[Anonymous No.20635671]

>>20635669
No I don't. I asked for a reason.

[Anonymous No.20635719]

>>20635671
The younger one who had schizophrenia and wrote good poetry

[Anonymous No.20635726]

>>20635719
Does she have a name?

[Anonymous No.20635737]

I read Orlando a month or two back. Is it supposed to read as an evolution of English writing style? Running from flowery prose to more a more austere and modern style before collapsing into a post-modernist mess in the last 40 odd pages? I haven't read analysis on the book but this was the vibe I got.

[Anonymous No.20635741]

>>20635726
Anne

[Anonymous No.20635757]

>>20635741
That wasn't so hard was it?

[Anonymous No.20635780]

>>20635757
I was not even the anon you were interrogating originally. I just commented Anne since no one answered you. Honestly, the other Anon is off: Emily is the one suspected of having a mental illness due to her “mysticism”

[Anonymous No.20635781]

>>20633255
female ebert

[Anonymous No.20636007]

anyone read this author. Just finished a book.