Literary ladies - names to faces

    Thankyou to everyone who put names to these faces on Monday's post; I think there was only one author who wasn't identified, but here they all are, from left to right, starting with the top row:

Ayn Rand - I know her best from Tobias Wolff's Old School (the CBG read it a while ago); Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was another book group read; Katherine Mansfield - here she is on 'cultivated minds'.

Angela Carter - someone I've not read at all; Virginia Woolf, of course; Karen Blixen - whose Babette's Feast was another recent book group book.

Dorothy Parker; Stella Gibbons - the one no-one got, and is that how you pictured the creator of Cold Comfort Farm, I wonder; a pensive Flora Thompson, most famous for her semi-autobiographical Lark Rise to Candleford.

Comments

[Sarah Salway]

Ah that's interesting because no, that's not how I picture Stella Gibbons BUT it is how I can picture a grown up Flora!!

[Juliet]

OOH,Angela Carter...you have a treat in store! Try "The Bloody Chamber"!

[adele geras]

What Juliet said! You have to read The Bloody Chamber as soon as poss and also the Magic Toyshop. Lots of others but those are my favourites. Esp Bloody Chamber.

[Lindsay]

I would read Carter - sugest Nights at the circus, but others recommendations no doubt excellent too. She's a magic realist which may not be your c of t, but while she's not in the same league as the great South American practitioners, she is worth the effort - Lindsay, now in Beijing!

[LizF]

I only recognised Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Angela Carter but I only recognised the latter because I have just acquired a copy of The Bloody Chamber with the same pic on it!
I love her take on Fairy Tales and The Bloody Chamber is a fascinating read.

[Margaret Powling]

It would seem my comment didn't adhere itself ... Is the woman in the centre of the bottom row Pamela Frankau?

[Margaret Powling]

Oops, sorry, I thought I was on the previous blog posting about this ... I see now I was wrong, it's not Pamela Frankau but Stella Gibbons.

[Cornflower]

I like magic realism, and I must give AC a try.
Hope you're done journeying for a while!