OK, you saw the Women Writers meme, and some of us had read a few of the books on the list. I found the Really Dead Women Writers Meme at Bardiac, the blog of a literature professor, and I’m not going to list all the Really Dead writers here. I will tell you which ones I’ve read:

Jane Austen (but not the works on the list)
Anne Bradstreet (not all, but some of her poetry)
Hildegard von Bingen (I’ve listened to Eldest Daughter sing some of her writings put to music. Does that count?)

Ummm. that’s it.

The oft-quoted C.S. Lewis: “Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old. . . . It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. If that is too much for you, you should at least read one old one to every three new ones.”

Maybe I should check out some DEAD women writers.