And are you ready for another author? I think you'd like Zenna Henderson, one of the great unacknowledged sf authors of our time. Strongly spiritual throughout, and The People, her best-known folk, are very religious. And she writes a lot about teachers, and kids. She's one of the first female science fiction writers who wrote in the modern era, and she never hid behind a man's pseudonym or a man's writing style. She writes like a woman, and by that I don't mean girly, or frilly --- some of her characters are as tough as nails. Some are scary crazy, and some, like Serena, are very brave.
"Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?"
Her stories --- especially that one --- move me.
Who else do you think writes like a woman, Rose? I was wondering what that means.
I sort of consider that Jen's favorite author, Connie Willis, writes "like a woman," as most of what's going on her books is told from the point of view of her female characters and their minds. But I'm not sure that the writing is feminine, although I suppose it must be.
I once read a mystery by a female, in which it was related that one of the male protagonists wore socks that matched his pants. That was a definite giveaway that the writer was female, since such a detail would never occur to, or be important to a guy, either the writer or the actual character itself.