Kiran Randhawa8 April 2013
Female authors are suffering in a male-dominated literary world just as they were in the 19th century, a novelist has claimed.
Elizabeth Jane Howard, who wrote the Cazalet tetralogy, said: “I feel because we started writing novels really before men on the whole, they don’t want us to even be good at that. I think men are more sympathetic to the work of men... although a really well-read man will read anything.”
The Man Booker Prize winner, 90, who was married to Lucky Jim author Kingsley Amis said she is not against men novelists, but “I just feel my side needs more encouragement.
I think at higher levels, a talented male writer would have an easier journey than a talented female writer... It depends enormously who reviews the work.”
