New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for July 16, 2020

Mary Shelley had the same response.

louisa may alcott.. Harper Lee…

Sappho…

Of course, you ended up with things like Jane Eyre, but that’s beside the point.

In high school, back in 19-you’re-not-cleared-for-that-information, I was required to read Silas Marner. I found it extraordinarily boring (mandatory reading will do that for you), but I do remember it was written by a woman under the pseudonym George Eliot.

Bronte Sisters Power Dolls!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NKXNThJ610

With… nah, that would spoil the surprise. Just watch it.

I’d like to think Mary Shelley woulda dug “Young Frankenstein”.

Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett, Connie Willis, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler, James Tiptree Jr., C.J. Cherryh, Joanna Russ, Marion Zimmer Bradley, C.L. Moore, Madeleine L’Engle, Lillian Hellman, Alice Adams, Eleanor Cameron, Laura Ingalls Wilder . . . should I continue?

Barbara Cartland, Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, Daphne DuMaurier, Jean Plaidy/Victoria Holt/Philippa Carr……..but enough of my misspent youth……

Apparently it’s not so much about an absence of female authors as it is ignorance of them. Then again, are we using Twitter as a representative sample here?

Beatrix Potter, anyone?

Yeah bish

D.C. Fontana, Vonda McIntyre, Sondra Marshak, Myrna Culbreath…

Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Doris Lessing, Flannery O’Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, Janet Frame, Margaret Drabble, Mary Gordon

I can hear the sound of librarians laughing incredulously at the first line in this strip. Go to any library and look for female authors who published after Jane Austen but before the Harry Potter series came out. While I appreciate the examples people have given, the number of female authors that have been published during that period is too massive to list.

For those playing along at home: That tweet is real and has already reached legendary meme status.

know your meme[dot]com/editorials/collections/not-long-before-rowling-was-published-tweet-inspires-celebration-of-female-authors

Madame d’Arblay (Fanny Burney), Ann Radcliffe, Aphra Behn, Marie de France, probably the anonymous author of “The Floure and the Leafe”, Hroswitha of Gandersheim….

Okay, it’s some hours later and I’ve reread the first panel, which sounds like was an actual tweet. I’m now guessing the first line was sarcastic.