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Literary Luminaries: Beards, Vaginas and the Avant-Garde Novelist – Part II

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Part II: ReadWomen IN THE FIRST PART of this essay on Monday, I took a look at the way in which cult female novelists are usually forgotten or ignored, whilst male cult authors, from Burroughs to Hunter S. Thompson, remain literary icons that are cherished by the public imagination. The same issue lies with women who are writing Big Books on a large canvas.