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I am looking for novelists who wrote before 1920 about women's issues.
I have liked almost everything I have read by Elizabeth Gaskell, Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Kate Chopin, as well as all the popular classic novels for young girls, but I am looking for suggestions of any novelists I might have missed. (I am not a fan of the Bronte sisters or Mary Shelley or of anything "Gothic", however.) I also enjoyed Bleak House by Dickens, so I am not looking necessarily for only women authors.
I loved Wharton's Ethan Frome. One of the most captivating books I've ever read.
I also enjoy Tracy Chevalier (Girl with the Pearl Earring, Falling Angels). Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is worth trying, although you said you don't like the Brontes. (Try it again!)
I am looking for novelists who wrote before 1920 about women's issues.
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Try My Antonia by Willa Cather, and A Drama in Muslin by George Moore, or perhaps even more his novel Esther Waters. The later would certainly resonate very easily with modern concerns, even though the book was written in the last century.
You might have a look at The Key by Junichio Tanizaki, or better his classic book of the changing roles of women in Japan in his story of four sisters, The Makioka Sisters.
Thanks. everyone! Thanks to you, I have now requested some of your suggestions from my local library, and what they don't have, I will order from Abe Books or Better World Books.
I really liked Ethan Frome, so I read The House of Mirth, but found it quite prolix.The Age of Innocence is on my Kindle, though, so I'll give her another shot.
"The Nightingale": Marie de France
"Cinderella": Charles Perrault
"La gatta cenerentola": Giambattista Basile Indiana Georges Sand Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Ourika Claire de Duras Aint I a Woman Sojourner Truth Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Anna Karenina Tolstoy Main Street Sinclair Lewis Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thakery Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Anything by Virginia Woolf, although she is after 1920.
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