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
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...
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.
16
, No. 1, Dangaroo Press, Aarhus, Denmark, p. 505.
505
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 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 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 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 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...
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 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...
Textual Production Ali Smith
With her background in academia and her work reviewing fiction for The Scotsman and The Guardian, AS has produced an impressive amount of literary criticism. She has written critical introductions for reissues of work...
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...
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 Doris Lessing
Angela Carter said that DL 's stories of the 1950s shaped the way I, for one, perceived the world.
Lessing, Doris. Collected African Stories. Flamingo.
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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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Timeline

1 January 1916: The British edition of Vogue (an American...

Building item

1 January 1916

The British edition of Vogue (an American fashion magazine) began publishing from Condé Nast in Hanover Square, London.

By early November 1973: Experimental novelist B. S. Johnson prefaced...

Writing climate item

By early November 1973

Experimental novelist B. S. Johnson prefaced his short-story volume Aren't You Rather Young To Be Writing Your Memoirs? with a polemical critique listing only sixteen serious contemporary British writers.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

Women writers item

May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.

By mid-October 1983: Ursula Owen, editor of Virago Press, published...

Women writers item

By mid-October 1983

Ursula Owen , editor of Virago Press , published with them an anthology of essays: Fathers: Reflections by Daughters.

8 May 2008: Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago...

Women writers item

8 May 2008

Virago Press marked thirty years of Virago Modern Classics by re-issuing works by Barbara Pym , E. M. Delafield , Elizabeth Taylor , Jacqueline Susann , Muriel Spark , Helene Hanff , Zora Neale Hurston , and Angela Carter .

Texts

Carter, Angela. Expletives Deleted. Chatto and Windus, 1992.
Carter, Angela. Five Quiet Shouters: An Anthology of Assertive Verse. Editor Tebb, Barry, Poet & Printer.
Carter, Angela. Heroes and Villains. Heinemann, 1969.
Warner, Marina. “Introduction”. The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales, edited by Angela Carter, Virago, 1993, p. ix - xvii.
Carter, Angela. Love. Hart-Davis, 1971.
Carter, Angela, and Martin Leman. Martin Leman’s Comic and Curious Cats. Gollancz, 1979.
Carter, Angela. “Mise-en-Scène for a Parricide”. London Review of Books, Vol.
3
, No. 16, pp. 21-4.
Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. Chatto and Windus, 1984.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77.
Carter, Angela. Nothing Sacred. Virago, 1982.
Carter, Angela. Several Perceptions. Heinemann, 1968.
Carter, Angela. Shadow Dance. Heinemann, 1966.
Carter, Angela. Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings: Angela Carter. Chatto and Windus, 1997.
Carter, Angela. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. Gollancz, 1979.
Carter, Angela. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. Hart-Davis, 1972.
Carter, Angela. The Magic Toyshop. Heinemann, 1967.
Carter, Angela. The Passion of New Eve. Gollancz, 1977.
Carter, Angela. The Sadeian Woman. Virago, 1979.
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. Chatto and Windus, 1991.