However, some novels were brilliantly written by women - outshining their male counterparts ... It's Jane Austen at her best - with drama, romance, and comedy only she can give us.

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I tend only to read novels by women these days, a trend which started a few years ago when I encountered, in close succession, the short stories ...

whose best known work is 1967 novel Ice. It defies genre description, but if you had to pick one it would be sci-fi. Kavan was some woman. She was born Helen Woods in Cannes in 1901. Her wealthy ...