Thread 24855723

The only female author in my collection is Mary Shelley and she might not of even written all of Frankenstein. I thought Lewis Carrol was a girl’s name turns out it’s not.

You thought Lewis was a woman's name?

>>24855723 (OP)
Clarice Lispector
Virginia Woolf
Alejandra Pizarnek
Sylvia Plath
A good indicator of the quality of a lady's writing is how fucked up her mental health is. Healthy woman can't write well or don't bother to only particularly acidic, misanthropic or disillusioned ones

>...she might not of even...
Begone from me illiterate. You should try reading books instead of merely buying them

>>24855723 (OP)
Willa Cather is one of the best writers in general

Nathalie Sarraute. Hands down. You're probably too stupid to get her anyways. Start with Tropismes. All her work is derived from this initial work. A failure to understand Tropismes makes it impossible to understand her more complex works. Good luck, pseud, I know you'll get filtered.

>>24855742
Yes
>>24855866
Never said I didn’t read it
>>24855895
Looked her up on goodreads, none of her books reach 4 stars, you’re just coping because she’s mid

>>24855723 (OP)
Patricia Highsmith and Sappho maybe. Not really many to chose from that I truly love

>>24855723 (OP)
>Might not of
>Lewis was a girls name
Have you considered learning English before critiquing English literature, or maybe reading literature in your native language?

I remember reading SPQR by Mary Beard and thinking it was pretty alright but my dad has been watching documentaries hosted by her on YouTube recently and every other thing that comes out of her openly man-hating mouth just sounds extra stupid and just makes me roll my fucking eyes.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book Piranesi by Susanne Clark a while back though.

>>24855971
>women on goodreads rater her low
Yikes! Sweetie, if that's how you tell if an author is good or not...

Ayn Rand. I'd personally recommend The Fountainhead.

>shelley didn't write Frankenstein
you're retarded

anyway read dickinson, austen, woolf, plath.

>>24856013
>SPQR by Mary Beard
I had my issued with this book, and it's those unnecessary off-hand comments. There's like three reminders within the first 200 pages of the book that Roman society was extremely patriarchal and muh poor women's viewpoint.
Towards the end, she mentioned the lives of some mayor characters in passing through Plutarch, and once again:
>... and the great men of history (and they were all men)

Women can't into academics. They were better authors and artists when they weren't allowed in schools.

>>24857638
>Women can't into academics. They were better authors and artists when they weren't allowed in schools
I think that's because the few who actually received an education were really passionate about it instead of attending college to fuck as many dicks as possible.

>>24857638
>They were better authors and artists when they weren't allowed in schools
A bitter truth. So often I hear "women didn't do X or Y back then because they were oppressed", when oppression seemingly was what granted those women worth reading the strength and distinction to do what they did, as well as the unique insights that made them a genuinely useful complement to masculine lit. Meanwhile a "liberated" woman attempting to do what (she thinks) men do is invariably just a quaint and embarrassing imitation of those men, and if men can be blamed for this it's for not oppressing such people into being interesting enough to make good art.

>>24855723 (OP)
LM Montgomery
Paulette Giles
Sylvia Plath
JK Rowling

>>24855723 (OP)
Either Emily Dickinson or Clarice Lispector, not sure

>>24855723 (OP)
Marianne Moore, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Bishop, "George Sand", Ann Carson. and Virginia Woolf all feature in my library. Dickinson of course, and in my opinion her "There's A Certain Slant Of Light" is underrated by almost all critics--who tend to overthink things to the detriment of nuance, imaginative suggestion.

>>24858931
*also, poets are almost always among the worst readers of their own work, and Moore was a rare exception to that rule.