'Fighting to be heard and fighting to make their own way in the world'

The fact that Nobel Prize for Literature committee chair Anders Olsson said, 'now we have so many female writers who are really great' when he announced that Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature is being commented on several sites such as Stylist.

Women have been writing great books for centuries. From the Brontë sisters – whose novels are still being adapted for the screen – to Margaret Atwood, whose 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale has found new resonances with readers, TV viewers and political activists alike, there is no shortage of brilliant books by women.
You would think then, that the chair of one of the most prestigious prizes for literature in the world, would know that women writing well is not a new phenomenon.
But today, as the Nobel Prizes for Literature for 2018 and 2019 were awarded, committee chair Anders Olsson said he hoped the prize would become much broader in scope “now we have so many female writers who are really great”. (Emily Reynolds)

Xposé (Ireland) interviews writer Louise Doughty.

Name a book you’ve read more than once? “Is it really boring to say Wuthering Heights? That’s probably my favourite classic because that’s a book that changes according to what age you read it. You read it possibly one way as a young woman believing in the existence of Heathcliff, and as a mature person you read it quite differently.” [...]
Who is the literary character you relate to the most? “I quite like the feistiness of Cathy in Wuthering Heights, but a lot of those Brontë heroines as a rule are women who have one foot in a kind of middle class life, but are really struggling financially, are not fashionable or beautiful, and are really fighting to be heard and fighting to make their own way in the world. Those are the women I identify with.”

Den of Geek! suggests '16 Best Fall 2019 Reads', such as

The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
[...] This book reminded me of both Jane Eyre and The Haunting of Hill House while also feeling entirely original. (Kayti Burt)