Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 21, pp. 7-14. 11
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Literary responses | Angela Carter | Carter herself called this book a juicy, overblown, exploding gothic lollipop. Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, pp. 7-14. 11 |
Literary responses | Marina Warner | Reviews, including those by Lorna Sage
in the Times Literary Supplement, Ann Cornelisen
in the New York Times Book Review, and Michiko Kakutani
in the New York Times, were generally positive. They... |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
and Linden Peach
both considered this book very useful as a context for reading AC
's fiction. Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press. 2 Halio, Jay L., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 14. Gale Research. 14: 212 |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | At the very end of her life, AC
still felt that she was unrecognised, Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 194 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Lorna Sage
wrote that the trilogy made MDthe city's self-appointed laureate. Platt, Edward. “25 Years fighting for writers’ rights”. ALCS News, No. 21, pp. 4-5. 4 |
Literary responses | Maureen Duffy | Reviewer Lorna Sage
saw the book as an example of bricolage, with an underlying mysticism complicating the matter-of-fact world of daily life. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 68 |
Health | Angela Carter | AC
said that she was a ravaged anorexic during her ludicrously overprotected adolescence. Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. Chatto and Windus. 22 |
Health | Angela Carter | Carter had not planned to get pregnant but intended to go ahead. Gamble, Sarah. Angela Carter. A Literary Life. Palgrave Macmillan. 177 |
Friends, Associates | Christine Brooke-Rose | Muriel Spark
, a very old friend of CBR
, Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press. 42 |
Friends, Associates | Angela Carter | Her literary friends included Lorna Sage
and Salman Rushdie
, a fellow campaigner against the Falklands War. Through her contributions to the London Review of Books she formed a friendship with Susannah Clapp
, an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Fortune | Indeed, her whole motivation at this time is murky: though she apparently had a work-related reason, she may have been escaping from her marriage. Lorna Sage
, following Lucy Sussex
, suggested that MF
was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Carter | In Japan AC
had a younger lover, Sozo Araki
, whom she calls Taro after a fictional character known as Momotaro or Peach Boy, who later had some success as a writer himself. Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol. 38 , No. 21, pp. 7-14. 11-12 |
Dedications | Michèle Roberts | The title story is dedicated to Lorna Sage
, and the volume as a whole to her memory. Various other stories are dedicated to other friends and writers. Some were originally written for radio. Newman, Jenny. “Michèle Roberts”. Contemporary British and Irish Fiction, edited by Sharon Monteith et al., Arnold, pp. 119-34. 131-2 |
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