Is it Sappho or Emily Dickinson? George Eliot or Virginia Woolf? Simone de Beauvoir or Edith Wharton? Jane Austen or Alice Walker? Elfried Jelinik or Sylvia Plath? Charlotte or Emily Bronte? Or?
2006-12-13 06:01:03 · 12 answers · asked by Lambert 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Ah, but... Oscar Wilde already answered that question. (And I ask all women on this board to please forgive me for this quotation...;-)) "The key to Jane Austen's unparalleled greatness is the fact that she wrote like a man. - Unlike other woman writers who think the whole world should be interested in their daydreams."
2006-12-13 08:22:07 · answer #1 · answered by Hans C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jane Austen ane Virginia Woolfe.
2006-12-13 14:09:50 · answer #2 · answered by sophisticated 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Emily Bronte
2006-12-13 14:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fragment 32 Sappho!
2006-12-13 14:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by gbgnick 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the above (least of all the immensely navel-staring Virginia Woolf). Rather, choose from this list (all Nobel Prize winners):
Selma Lagerlöf, Grazia Deledda, Sigrid Undset, Pearl S. Buck, Gabriela Mistral, Nelly Sachs, Nadine Gordimer.
2006-12-13 14:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by Superdog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Margaret Peterson Haddix
author of Among the hidden
2006-12-13 14:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Edith Wharton wrote with brilliant insight.
2006-12-13 14:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by themistocles 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Virginia Hamilton She wrote a lot of books for young adults and some historical fiction books. Winner of many
book awards She is a must read.
2006-12-13 16:24:26 · answer #8 · answered by Ammy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hands down the best female writer is Margaret Atwood. She has mastered many different types of writing (poetry, non-fiction, literary criticism, fiction, science fiction, short story) and her work is insightful, beautiful, and she has such a grasp of how language sounds and how to create powerful images. I don't think she gets nearly enough recognition for being one of the greatest writers, male or female, of the 20th/21st century.
2006-12-13 14:44:08 · answer #9 · answered by ivybear98 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No contest. Jane Austen, for her astute, psychological insight into human nature.
2006-12-13 14:09:35 · answer #10 · answered by Panama Jack 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋