Oh actually there is one that I have read and really love: Anne Frank.
I don't usually read women's writings and I especially never enjoy Holocaust literature, but the Diary of Anne Frank, along with the play by the same name, are truly brilliant. I cannot stress how much I love Anne Frank. This is really unusual for me because again, women and the Holocaust are two genres of writing that I never touch. Perhaps Anne is so good because it was written by a youth much like myself.
Women are not a genre!Originally Posted by The Kid
By far, I love Jane Austen. If my hubby and I ever have a girl, we would name her Jane. (Our boys are William and Charles for Shakespeare and Dickens).
But I also love the Bronte Sisters, Charlotte in particular.
There are several great female writers, but those are my favorites.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Women writers I like:
Prose:
Jane Austen
Frances Burney
Alice Munro
Willa Cather
Flannery O'Connor
Margaret Atwood
Ursula LeGuin
Poetry:
Marianne Moore
Gertrude Stein
Elizabeth Bishop
Dorothy Livesay
Anne Carson
Drama:
Aphra Behn
"If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia."
- Margaret Atwood
Jumping on the Margaret Atwood bandwagon - I adore that woman!
Alyson of Bathe's feeble attempt at completing the 1001 books challenge. You would think a former English major would have a better start than this. For the Reading.
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