Virago Monthly Author Reads 2018 Voting

Hi all. Could I please have suggestions for authors for this year's monthly reads? I'm attempting to create one list now as I won't have time later in the year to create the quarterly lists.

I'm thinking up to four names each would make things manageable.

We're aiming for eleven names. (I'm going to skip January as we're already into it). If we get more than eleven, I'll arrange a deciding vote.

Deadline will be Midnight British time Tuesday 9th January.

To qualify the author should have had at least one book published as a Virago Modern Classic. Please avoid the names below which were chosen last year.

Vita Sackville-West
Rebecca West
Edith Wharton
Elizabeth von Arnim
Willa Cather
Margaret Laurence
Rumer Godden
Christina Stead
Nina Bawden
Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Atwood
Sylvia Townsend Warner

Any suggestions 😊 ?

Thank you Dee!

Here are some nominations!

Stevie Smith
Angela Carter
Jane Bowles
F. Tennyson Jesse

Thank you Dee - that sounds eminently sensible!

My four are:

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
E. H. Young
E. M. Delafield
Kate O'Brien

I like what I am seeing thus far.
Thanks Dee.

My suggested nominees are:
Ellen Glasgow,
Joyce Carol Oates, (though I keep thinking we may have read her in the not too distant past???)
Gail Godwin &
Ada Leverson

I would add:

Molly Keane
Olivia Manning
Rosamond Lehmann
Antonia White

Thank you very much for arranging this.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Antonia White
Enid Bagnold
Zora Neale Hurston

Another vote for E.H. Young and Molly Keane here.

Also,
Angela Thirkell
Margaret Oliphant

My suggestions:

Kaye Gibbons
E H Young
Storm Jameson
Radclyffe Hall
Molly Keane

Rosamond Lehmann
Stevie Smith
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Winifred Holtby

Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Winifred Holtby
Zora Neale Hurston
Barbara Comyns

>1 Soupdragon:
Dee, are we still suggesting or are we voting? Sorry, I am just a little confused.

>11 rainpebble: Still suggesting! I'll start a votes thread tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for all your suggestions. We have well over eleven names (twenty six, I think) so I have created a voting thread here.