British female writers

[David Casseres]

A.S. Byatt is really good. Her novel Posession is a great tour de
force about Victorian poets and the modern scholars who get wrapped up
in them; and the stories in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye are
wonderful.

On 10/12/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the information on Shirley Hazzard, Mike. As I get it she's
> Australian, although she is considered to be a British writer as well. The
> ever fluid identity! Anyway, to do justice to the female writers of Great
> Britain, especially considering the fact that I don't know all worth of
> attention, I would like to have a similar list with them as well. Below I
> will list the obvious names that come to my mind right now and I would be
> glad to get any opinion and contribution from the list.
>
> A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Sarah Waters, Zadie Smith, Doris Lessing, Monica
> Ali, Beryl Bainbridge, Pat Barker, Ali Smith, A.L. Kennedy, Margaret
> Drabble, Shirley Hazzard.
>
> To my mind A.S. Byatt is the most learned from this list and Angela Carter
> is the most bizzare.
>
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