by popular demand (no one at all asked for this) i am going to repost my ‘women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette’ series in the one thread (in fits and starts) #smokingauthors

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 1 in a series: Carson McCullers

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 2 in a series: Joan Didion

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 3 in a series: Muriel Spark

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 4 in a series: Françoise Sagan

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 5 in a series: Herta Müller

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 6 in a series: Clarice Lispector

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 7 in a series: Virginia Woolf

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 8 in a series: Lillian Hellman

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 9 in a series: Anne Sexton

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 10 in a series: Zora Neale Hurston

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 11 in a series: Gloria Steinem

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 12 in a series: Daphne du Maurier

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 13 in a series: Colette

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 14 in a series: Fran Lebowitz

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 15 in a series: Dorothy Parker

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 16 in a series: Maeve Brennan

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 17 in a series: Marguerite Duras

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 18 in a series: Zelda Fitzgerald

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 19 in a series: Susan Sontag

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 20 in a series: Hannah Arendt

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 21 in a series: Jean Rhys

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 22 in a series: Adrienne Rich

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 23 in a series: Edna O’Brien

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 24 in a series: Martha Gellhorn (and some bloke)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 25 in a series: Oriana Fallaci

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 26 in a series: Sylvia Townsend Warner

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 27 in a series: Harper Lee

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 28 in a series: Anaïs Nin

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 29 in a series: Beryl Bainbridge

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 30 in a series: Angela Carter

(she died, tragically young, of lung cancer)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 31 in a series: Edna St Vincent Millay

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 32 in a series: Mary McCarthy

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 33 in a series: Eve Babitz

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 34 in a series: Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 35 in a series: Anita Brookner

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 36 in a series: Lady Caroline Blackwood

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 37 in a series: Katherine Anne Porter

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 38 in a series: Fleur Jaeggy

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 39 in a series: Ingeborg Bachmann

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 40 in a series: Doris Lessing

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 41 in a series: Jenny Diski

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 42 in a series: Georgette Heyer

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 43 in a series: Janet Flanner

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 44 in a series: Ngaio Marsh

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 45 in a series: Christine Brooke-Rose

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 46 in a series: Natalia Ginzburg

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 47 in a series: Radclyffe Hall

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 48 in a series: Patricia Highsmith

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 49 in a series: Gisela Elsner

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 50 in a series: Helen DeWitt

will leave it at 50 today and come back with more tomorrow

ok starting back up again

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 51 in a series: Arundhati Roy

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 52 in a series: Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 53 in a series: Christine Wunnicke (h/t @jenniferdown)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 54 in a series: Julia Kristeva

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 55 in a series: Charmian Clift

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 56 in a series: Leonora Carrington

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 57 in a series: Marjane Satrapi

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 58 in a series: Donna Tartt

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 59 in a series: Jane Bowles

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 60 in a series: Grace Metalious

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 61 in a series: Maya Angelou

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 62 in a series: Tove Ditlevsen

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 63 in a series: Dola de Jong

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 64 in a series: Elizabeth Bishop

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 65 in a series: Simone de Beauvoir

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 66 in a series: Lorraine Hansberry

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 67 in a series: Gabriela Mistral

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 68 in a series: Lucia Berlin

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 69 in a series: Iris Murdoch

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 70 in a series: Elizabeth Bowen

Bonus Bowen with Sylvia Plath, who i can’t for the life of me find holding a cigarette

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 71 in a series: Shirley Jackson

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 72 in a series: Tove Jansson

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 73 in a series: Virginie Despentes

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 74 in a series: Kate Millett

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 75 in a series: Elizabeth Jane Howard

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 76 in a series: Deborah Levy (submitted by @bronwynbirdsall)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 77 in a series: Elsa Morante

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 78 in a series: Elaine Dundy

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 79 in a series: Mercè Rodoreda

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 80 in a series: Vita Sackville-West

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 81 in a series: Jessica Mitford

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 82 in a series: Ibaragi Noriko (h/t @animalorchestra)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 83 in a series: Inès Cagnati

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 84 in a series: Elizabeth Wurtzel (h/t @animalorchestra)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 85 in a series: Colleen McCullough

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 86 in a series: Joan Wyndham

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 87 in a series: Mercedes de Acosta

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 88 in a series: Penelope Mortimer

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 89 in a series: Enid Bagnold

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 90 in a series: Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 91 in a series: Wisława Szymborska (h/t @animalorchestra)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 92 in a series: Eimear McBride (h/t @MatildaBookshop)

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 93 in a series: Edith Wharton

Women writers looking bored and holding a cigarette, part 94 in a series: Vera Brittain (h/t @animalorchestra)