Aug 25, 2024
Recommendations for autobiographical fiction written from female perspectives?
dostoyvey1 year ago
I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Villette by C. Brontë Novel on Yellow Paper by the BRILLIANT Stevie Smith Several of the ALSO BRILLIANT Barbara Comyns' novels, esp. Sisters by a River and A Touch of Mistletoe A Double Life by Karolina Pavlova The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks
dumgirl1 year ago
tove ditlevsen's copenhagen trilogy
guy1 year ago
Country Girls by Edna O'Brien & Belljar by Plath off the top of my head.
Olivia by Dorothy Strachey (lesbian novella about her schoolgirl crush on her teacher)
Simone de Beauvoir's "She Came to Stay" which I read recently and strongly disliked, but it fits the bill. I'll think of a bunch more.
Both pretty mainstream: Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey I loved Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit as a kid, but it's somewhat simplistic. Her later novels I've read are better, though don't meet your specifications.
amf1 year ago
Assuming you're explicitly referring to fiction here? Marguerite Duras' The Lover is magnificent.
Ah yeah that was my intention, I updated my post and thanks for the recommendation.
La Vagabonde by Colette