![]() Race! The thing that bound and suffocated her.” The daughter of a white Danish mother and a black West Indian father, Chicago-born Larsen’s two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), cemented her position as part of the Harlem Renaissance. “She was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. The Split by Sharon Bolton (£12.99, Orion) is out 105. Charlotte Brontë remains the undisputed queen of the romantic thriller.” Brontë was a woman born too soon, constrained by her upbringing and whose only outlet for her passion and fierce intelligence was her pen. Throughout the Cinderella-creepiness of Jane Eyre (1847), the subversive isolation of Villette (1853) or the feminist polemic that is Shirley (1849), the frustrated howling of the author rings in our ears. “Don’t be fooled by the parsonages and the prim bonnets this bitch’s novels throb with sex. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) by author Sharon Bolton Meet the woman who helped create fiction: Behn is considered England’s first-ever professional female writer thanks to her plays (featuring the then-mistress of the king, Nell Gwynne) and the novel Oroonoko (1688) – an astonishing book that is unflinching in its portrayal of slavery, violence and honour. Greatest female authors ever: the pioneers 107.
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