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BaldFriede
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The Brontė sisters are fascinating. Each of them wrote at least one
novel that is top notch. Anne wrote two, of which her second "The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall" was for a long time under the radar because it
was over a hundred years ahead of its time but has in recent years been
widely regarded as a masterpiece. Charlotte wrote four, of which "Jane
Eyre" is considered to be her masterpiece. Emily only wrote one novel,
"Wuthering Heights". Edited by BaldFriede - June 11 2019 at 08:14 |
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I haven't read the Tenant of Wildfell Hall so I've gone for that option as it's hard to choose between the other two. If you forced me at gunpoint I'd probably go for Jane Eyre. I do like Wuthering Heights but found the similarity of the names confusing at times.
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Ive only read Jane, ought to read the othrr two also
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Wuthering Heights. The only one that I've read multiple times.
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I've only read Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre
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For more information about the Brontė family and the novels go to these Wikipedia pages: The family: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Jane Eyre: Wuthering Heights: |
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Jane Eyre was curriculum on an English bachelor program Madness in Writining which delt with the gothic novel of 1800s the Freudian element of the uncanny and the elemeny of the sublime
Which Jane Eyre was curriculum, but Wuthering Highrs was also reccomended read. Lots of elements of the uncanny in Jane Eyre |
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I did not read Anne's novel and like only Emily's
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despite being highly controversial at the time it came out (1848) the
novel was initially a big success, perhaps it was so controversial. but
Charlotte prohibited a republication of the novel after Anne's death. the novel is about a woman leaving her alcoholic, abusive and sexually promiscuous husband taking their 5-year old son with her. |
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Hi,
I love reading women's work ... I really do ... but the Bronte's are not the ones I would recommend. In my book they are not as important as so many other things written by women BEFORE and AFTER the Bronte sisters. Examples: George Elliot Mary Shelley Mary Woolstonecraft Louisa May Alcott Ann Radcliffe (personal favorite) Emily Dickinson Clara Reeve Elizabeth Barrett Browning Doris Lessing (personal favorite!) Virginia Woolf Margaret Atwood Anne Rice (her erotica specially is better than the other stuff!) Just to give you folks an idea ... for me the Bronte's don't mean much ... and someone like Doris Lessing is much more valuable and important. Go read "The Golden Notebook" and then close it out with "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell". |
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I think you
underestimate the Brontė's; their literary impact is formidable, and in
my opinion they fully deserve their accolades. Ann
Radcliffe is in my opinion way too long-winded; "The Mysteries of
Udolpho", the only book Friede and I read of her so far, took ages to
get to the point. endless landscape descriptions, which were certainly
well done - but were they really necessary for the story? Friede and I
(we love to read together lying side by side on our bellies) took that
book down many many times before we finished it, which is very rare with
us; we usually finish books very quickly. interesting
that you mention Mary Wollstonecraft but leave out her more famous
daughter Mary Shelley. and where is Jane Austen on your list?! Susanna
Clarke is one of the very best authors I recently read; her novel
"Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell" is very thick (1100 pages), but
Friede and I read those 1100 pages in no time; it was so hilarious. Patricia Highsmith should definitely also be on the list. Keri Hulme is definitely worth mentioning; for her novel "The Bone People" she was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 1985. a
few German women authors I would like to add: Christa Wolf, Irmtraud
Morgner and of course Herta Müller, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for
literature in 2009. |
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Great list. However, I prefer Lessing less, than almost everyone else on your list. The Bronte's rock. My favorite Female author ever? Nobel Prize winner "Sigrid Undsett. But then again, Lessing won a Nobel too! My other favorite female authors? Edith Warton Stella Gibbons Jean Rhys Muriel Spark Ursula K Le Ginn Flannery O'Conner Leslie Marmon Silko Angela Carter Joyce Carol Oates Susanna Clarke Elizabeth Kostova Sylvia Plath Tananarive Due Poppy Z Brite Gillian Flynn Mina Loy Caitlin R Kiernan Shirley Jackson Willa Cather Kate Chopin Iris Murdoch Edited by omphaloskepsis - June 12 2019 at 12:20 |
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moshkito
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Lessing is, at times difficult to read since she is, a very different "feminist" without exactly being a dressed up and hat wearing symbol for the ... groups! And considering that she wrote many of these over 50 years ago, the importance of her stuff is even more poignant and sometimes scary (The Grass is Singing).
I wanted to add more ... and there are many things in this group for example that are magnificent. for some reason Le Ginn never clicked with me. By the time she came up I was already reading Anne Rice, and (again) I thought her erotica was more interesting because it delved into better and stronger reasons for the vampire ideas and concepts, and specially its history ... or should I say ... lack of! Sylvia Plath is the darling of a lot of lit classes in college, and by that time I had already exhausted a couple of French authors that were beyond that. Jean Genet comes to mind, although his stuff is ... amazingly difficult to read, and much more "long winded" than many examples here. I simply feel that Austen/Bronte were the Model for a lot of popular literature and not as important as they could have been ... even with WUTHERING HEIGHTS ... though seeing it with Merle Oberon, for me, has a way of destroying the emotional side of it all! I would rather see a more sexual/sensual person there ... and endup with a type of DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI thing (a la Oliver Reed and Ken Russell!) ... which makes much more sense for me. It's the same thing, for me, as a total example, of hos Christianity has corrupted the stories from the Greek Myths and many the like ... by turning them inside out, into meaningless material ... the story of Medea is the greatest hatred work every written about "woman" ... and I say the messenger is a liar and a puppet for a group that doesn't want women with the powers and abilities they might have as a witch, for example. She's considered a murderess, when taking her kids out for a ride on those chariots, and the chariot turning over, would be easy to happen and youngsters would like suffer more than an adult ... but all a professor could say when I wrote all that was ... "who are you to think that you can know the classics better? ... Same thing for Oedipus when so many groups in those days relied on staying together and intermarrying as a way to be able to stay strong and ... in the case of Oedipus, to stay in power ... but in essence, including the really vicious part of Medea using this and that to kill Glauce, is one of the worst indications that the powerful and strong women of the past in the stories were not to remain known as such and that their "strength" would be shown as a problem, and specially a social hatred! For me, the quality and depth is valuable, and the story can be really simple ... and I'm not a fan of material that goes around in circles, that sometimes feels like it is hiding something from you! I see too many people that do that all day long in front of me! They are not invisible, and neither is most literature for me!
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Intriguing explanation, analysis, insights, and feelings! Bravo! Thanks for sharing, enjoyed it immensely.
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[QUOTE=omphaloskepsis]
Ursula K Le Ginn [QUOTE=omphaloskepsis] Her name is actually Ursula K. Le Guin. I only read "The Left Hand of Darkness" by her so far and liked it.Other great female authors: Anna Seghers Joan Aiken Selma Lagerlöf Siri Hustvedt ! Toni Morrison Arundhati Roy ! Juli Zeh ! Robert Galbraith ! Edited by BaldFriede - June 12 2019 at 18:37 |
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The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Le Guin was a fave when I was youngster.
I'm a big Ellis Peters fan, and I also love to read Agatha Christie. |
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Juli Zeh is a German author that should definitely be read. she writes philosophical thrillers in a stunning language. some of her books have been translated into English. start with her first "Adler und Engel", for which she was awarded the Deutscher Bücherpreis (German books award) for best debut novel in 2002. it was translated into English as "Eagles and Angels". the book was translated into 35 languages. Zeh's writing is about the antagonism of chaos and order; she asks if and how meaning and ethics can be rebuilt when traditional values have become meaningless. recurring themes are questions of getting lost, of solidarity and of the fundamental norms and the environment in a society of individualization and globalization, in which common responsibility for the future of the world community are no longer recognizable Edited by BaldJean - June 13 2019 at 08:27 |
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How interesting ... Edgar Froese just about says the same thing in that one BBC special in 6 parts, and proclaims that it was that kind of feeling and individuality that made the whole thing valuable as an artistic experience. For an "artist", you have to do something like that ... because it is about what you see inside yourself that has to come out and not be sublimated to censorship and punishment from the all-well-meaning father, that destroys all the personality inside the child with his religion and sociality! Now you know where I stand ... and I'm a card carrying freedom'ologist ... and have been fighting along with women't rights more often than most women give a sh*t! And you have not read anything I wrote to even know what I said!
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Jane Eyre is more gripping, easy to read and understand.
Wuthering Heights is more intricate in general both story wise and theme wise; also more sophisticated regarding the setting(s), characters, and more labyrinthine as for its plot. I like them both, yet I liked reading Jane Eyre way more on my first readings. |
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you should most definitely give "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" a try too
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