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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 | 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... |
Literary responses | Angela Carter | Anthony Burgess
praised AC
for doing something in this novel which she did in later ones as well: looking at the mess of contemporary life without flinching. Lee, Alison. Angela Carter. Twayne. 23 |
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 |
Textual Features | Angela Carter | Lorna Sage
noted that South America is an apt setting for this novel, since the essays and stories of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges
show a similar blending of the fantastical and the documentary (... |
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 |
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 |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Lorna Sage
in The Observer described Amalgamemnon as an elegant, rueful and witty word-game about what it feels like to be a word-addict—worse, a writing addict. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Lorna Sage
hailed this novel as science fiction of the subversive sort. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Residence | E. Owens Blackburne | EOB
moved to London to begin her career as a full-time writer. Critic Lorna Sage
gives the date of her move as 1873. Sage, Lorna, editor. The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English. Cambridge University Press. Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass. |
Literary responses | E. Owens Blackburne | In the same preface EOB
promises to include some previously unpublished poems by William Wordsworth
, apparently in connection with the Ladies of Llangollen. Between the publication of the two volumes, however, Wordsworth's son forbade... |
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