Name 1 (ONE) good female writer

sappho

Sylvia Plath

shakespeare

Woolf

>>9718848
Emily Bronte

>>9718848
Emily Dickinson is #1 imo

Munro

>>9718966
>implying he wasn't the italian man Frollo Crollalanza

>>9718848
Edith Wharton

Marie-Louise Kaschnitz

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Flannery O'Connor

anne carson, sheila watson, alice munro - canada just shits out these seemingly bland middle aged white women who carefully read literature their entire lives and then make serious contributions to the landscape.

i think anne carson in particular is really cool if a little autistic

>>9718849
>>9718978
These two are pretty fucking majestic

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Tove Jansson

Djuna Barnes

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>>9718848
Really, OP?

>>9719434
OP said 'good', but hey, this is /lit/, I wouldn't expect you to know how to read.

>>9719494
My mistake. I posted "great" instead of "good."

I've liked the two books by Cristina Garcia I've read. She deals primarily with Cuba.

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Comfy af desu

Iris Murdoch.

Doris Lessing

Might as well ask here, what are some good mystery books by women?

>>9719211
so much this

>>9718848
marguerite yourcenar

>>9719709
this was a question on jeopardy today.

Elsa Morante

Octavia Butler

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Still waiting

Flannery O'connor, Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, Joy Williams, Joan Didion, Elena Ferrante, George Eliot, Carson Mccullers

>>9720077
are you a time traveller

>>9718848
Shelley??

>>9720270
Mary? her books are so fucking easy to ruin for yourself after learning their ALL about her daddy issues.

>>9719590
There's this obscure writer called Agatha Christie.