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