Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
BL
's stage adaptation of Angela Carter
's The Bloody Chamber opened at Northern Stage
in Newcastle
Mslexia. Mslexia Publications.
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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...
Literary responses
Elizabeth Jolley
Angela Carter
, reviewing Foxybaby for the New York Review of Books, described its characters as lonely, loony, unhappy, existentially deranged, and praised EJ
's ability to combine profound feeling with low farce, high...
Literary responses
Jackie Kay
Anne Enright
in a review of this collection for the Guardian was typical in her warmth of appreciation. Kay, she said, gives hugely of her talent; pours it on to the page. She often sets...
Literary responses
Leonora Carrington
Its publisher notes Angela Carter
's praise for LC
's writing: Her work bristles with a fierce, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power
“The Complete Stories, Leonora Carrington”. Dorothy, A Publishing Project.
Literary responses
Michèle Roberts
MR
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (elected in 1999) and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (awarded in 2000).
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
“Professor Michele Roberts”. University of East Anglia.
In 2009 Susanne Gruss
published a monograph entitled The...
Literary responses
Christina Stead
One outspoken admirer of CS
was Angela Carter
, who likened the experience of reading her to plunging into the mess of life itself'.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She strongly recommended Stead's work for re-issuing in the Virago Modern...
Intertextuality and Influence
Sarah Waters
SW
puts in puts in something like a regular work day when writing, but keeps going to all hours when re-writing. Despite her success, she still finds the process largely torture. And yet [s]tarting...
Intertextuality and Influence
Doris Lessing
Angela Carter
said that DL
's stories of the 1950s shaped the way I, for one, perceived the world.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
novels (which have never been published), set among the middle class to which she now belonged. Then she attended a creative writing course in which novelist Angela Carter
read...
Intertextuality and Influence
Naomi Mitchison
This book takes another sombre look at the national and international political situation. In the title story the three little pigs are cowering in their brick house, still afraid, while the fourth imagines the agony...
Intertextuality and Influence
Ali Smith
The book's narrator is an unnamed, ungendered arborist in mourning for his or her unnamed, ungendered partner, a literary academic whose spectre lingers about the book both figuratively, in the form of unfinished lectures, and...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rosalind Coward
With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex...
Instructor
Anne Enright
Most significant among those who taught her were Angela Carter
and Malcolm Bradbury
, especially the former: she had applied for this course on the strength of her reading of Carter
's The Bloody Chamber...
Friends, Associates
Elaine Feinstein
While she was teaching at Essex, EF
met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn
, who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard
