Who is the best female author?
Mary Shelley imo
Nightmare mode: No muh stream of virginia woolf
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>>8038547
Gertrude Stein
More like Very Smelley, because her writing stinks
>>8038547
Belle Randall
>>8038547
Frankenstein is GOAT
Woolf is GOAT, so go fuck yourself.
Although the best female poet is Sor Juana tbqhwy blood relative.
me :^)
>>8038547
19th C.: George Eliot
20th C.: Willa Cather
Iris Murdoch
Anita Brookner
Marylinne Robinson
Virginia Woolf is the best though.
>>8038547
>Mary Shelley
Even Jane Austen is better. Some anons have already listed some examples of better female writers from the last century. How is your opinion so trash
Virginia Woolf is actually fucking amazing tho
the female joyce
too bad women have no ambition and she never wrote a ulysses
>>8039408
Mrs. Dalloway is better than Ulysses you fucking philistine.
what about flannery oconner?
>>8039463
Oh look, the Lispector autist has arrived.
>>8038547
Anne Carson
Yourcenar
Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and Stein
>>8038547
George Eliot and Jane Austin
>>8039463
Read both. Love both.
You are being a contrarian try hard.
I've never read any of Ayn Rand's works. Is it worth it or just a meme?
Flannery O'Connor, by far.
>>8038547
enid blyton
Edith Wharton
Jane Austen
2 of the 3 Bronte sisters
>Female authors
>Good
>Females
>Good
Heh.
>>8039383
Basically this
>this crazy bitch is writing super hot literature, and basically you're a fucking loser
>click here to die
>>8038547
Shit, I only made it to Type-III
>Hindustani Classical Music
>Luk Thung
>Zeuhl
>>8038547
Ursula K. Le Guin is pretty good I think. I wouldn't call her the best, but I mean would you have an answer to the question "Who is the best male author?"
I've been boycotting women authors. All they write is click bait man hate shit. Fuck women writers.
>>8038588
Ya got me.
>>8038547
Elizabeth Anscombe.
Connie Willis.
Flannery O'Connor.
Wila cather sucks so badly yuck. One of the worst writers ever.
The wuthering heights bronte was good.
>>8038547
what is the source of this photo?
>>8041811
I don't get it, is it just progression towards freeform non-music?
>>8042071
/mu/ chart from 2013. 2016 /mu/ isnt worth it anymore
>>8038547
SAPPHO
>>8039968
we really need to accept that Austen is actually incredibly important.
She shaped the modern view of a good man/woman. She almost single-handedly alongside very few people in the same exact time period who were fully aware of her work, like Samuel Johnson with his Rambler newspaper. Her novels transitioned the common perception of a good man/good husband to one who is good hearted, even if they aren't as successful socially. I.e. men who say what they believe, not what is right.
This was incredibly radical and unacceptable in the time. Austen was a radical writer. There's a reason most of her work wasn't published until after her death - the social establishment was horrified by the influence and success of her early work.
>>8042330
I realize I worded this badly -
She made men who were good hearted rather than trained to be show dogs the desirable husbands in a world that, for 150 years, had the royal idea of "good breeding" leaking into lower and lower classes. In Austen's time farmer's daughters were going to events to show off their manners. It was an outrageous and disingenuous system that Austen inspired a movement against and brought down within a generation. Her influence on everyday life and thought about others is perhaps more than any man in her century. In terms of shaping views of character she is on par with Shakespeare. Austen can not be dismissed by any adequately conservative reader as a woman who wrote romance novels.
