Angela Carter

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Standard Name: Carter, Angela
Birth Name: Angela Olive Stalker
Married Name: Angela Olive Carter
AC was a prolific writer in many genres throughout the later twentieth century. Best known for her novels and short stories, she also wrote plays (for radio, screen and stage), poetry, children's stories, journal articles, an opera libretto, and a critical work on the Marquis de Sade (as well as on pornography and women's relation to it). A translator of Charles Perrault 's fairy tales, she edited several fairy-tale collections, and an anthology of women's tales. Her name is prominent in critical discussion of various recent modes of fiction: magic realist, gothic, and feminist.
Black-and-white portrait photograph of Angela Carter, seated, at an event in Lecce, Italy, May 1986.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Mary Fortune
To critic Andrew ManghamThe White Maniac examplifies a Victorian fascination with the potential for violence and irrationality in female adolescents, and detection as sustain[ing] a number of social hierarchies through the actual and figurative...
Performance of text Bryony Lavery
BL 's stage adaptation of Angela Carter 's The Bloody Chamber opened at Northern Stage in Newcastle
Mslexia. Mslexia Publications.
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Publishing Pat Barker
PB says that one stage she threw away the manuscript of this novel in despair, but her husband rescued it from the bin.
Jaggi, Maya. “Pat Barker. Dispatches from the front”. The Guardian, 16 Aug. 2003, pp. G2: 16 - 19.
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She said she felt the absence of models for writing fiction...
Textual Features Bryony Lavery
The Magic Toyshop, which BL adapted from Angela Carter 's second novel (published in 1967) and seen at the Dublin Fringe Festival in October 2001, is a gothic fantasy about a mad, patriarchal toy-maker.
Textual Features Michelene Wandor
This includes work by Nora Bartlett , Sara Maitland , Judith Kazantzis , Wendy Mulford , Libby Houston , Cora Kaplan , Michèle Roberts , Angela Carter , Noel Greig , Rozsika Parker , Alison Hennegan
Textual Features Emma Tennant
The story is presented as a spellbinding tale told to little girls by the ancient crone-like Grandmother Dummer. Beginning with traditional tales, she moves to an updated, feminist fairy story in the manner of Angela Carter
Textual Features Maud Sulter
Pursuing her established interest in the Black presence in Europe, MS here relates the story of Duval , mistress of the French poet Charles Baudelaire , the Black Venus of his poetry, who was fictionalised...
Textual Features A. S. Byatt
Her selection (limited to English, not merely British, writers) determinedly eschews the well-known. She seeks the startling and the satisfying, selecting both lesser-known writers like Leonora Carrington or Elizabeth Taylor , and unexpected stories...
Textual Features Carol Ann Duffy
Critic Deryn Rees-Jones discerns widely varied influences on CAD 's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth , Robert Browning , T. S. Eliot , Auden , Dylan Thomas , Larkin , and Ted Hughes ...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
BL 's numerous plays for radio include some original and some adapted from other works: Laying Ghosts, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Velma and Therese (a parallel version of the film Thelma and...
Textual Production Marina Warner
MW 's passion for books began early. Describing her motivations for writing, she says I was a bookworm as a child because I liked entering other worlds through stories.
Warner, Marina. “Why I Write”. Kunapipi, Vol.
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, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, Aarhus, Denmark, 1994, p. 505.
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To her, writing was also...
Textual Production Marina Warner
Warner has written a significant number of book introductions to texts including Christine de Pisan 's The Book of the City of Ladies, Angela Carter 's edited volume The Second Virago Book of Fairy...
Textual Production Emma Tennant
During the 1960s ET wrote for magazines like Queen and Vogue. She was founder-editor of Bananas, a journal of new writing that ran from 1975 to 1981 and attracted contributors like Angela Carter
Textual Production Beryl Bainbridge
Hodder and Stoughton turned it down, then Chapman and Hall , then Chatto and Windus , all with words of encouragement which BB felt too insecure to take in. These were later joined by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Textual Production Christina Stead
At the age of eleven CS won a district competition for an essay. Her subject (derived from the work of her father the naturalist) was the life-cycle of the frog. Within a few years she...

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Texts

Carter, Angela. The Magic Toyshop. 1st ed., Heinemann, 1967.
Carter, Angela. The Passion of New Eve. 1st ed., Gollancz, 1977.
Carter, Angela. The Sadeian Woman. 1st ed., Virago, 1979.
Sargood, Corinna. The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales. Editor Carter, Angela, Virago, 1992.
Sargood, Corinna. The Virago Book of Fairy Tales. Editor Carter, Angela, Virago, 1990.
Carter, Angela. Unicorn. A Tlaloc print-out, 1966.
Carter, Angela, editor. Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories. Virago, 1986.
Carter, Angela. Wise Children. 1st ed., Chatto and Windus, 1991.