Edmund Gordon

Standard Name: Gordon, Edmund

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Ali Smith
A. S. Byatt praised Smith's novel as sharp, witty, innovatory and moving,
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Byatt, A. S. “An exciting event this year has been the publication. ”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5670, 2 Dec. 2011, p. 9.
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while Lionel Shriver , reviewing for the Financial Times, was especially taken with the photo researcher's story, particularly the hilariously awkward...
Reception Angela Carter
The year after its publication, AC 's novel The Magic Toyshop won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research, 1962–2025, Numerous volumes.
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Peach, Linden. Angela Carter. St Martin’s Press, 1998.
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Carter's biographer Edmund Gordon noted in 2016 that this was still her most widely read novel.
Turner, Jenny. “A New Kind of Being”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 21, 3 Nov. 2016, pp. 7-14.
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Textual Production Angela Carter
In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77.
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Her two...

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Texts

Gordon, Edmund. “The dinner guest”. The Times Literary Supplement, No. 5644, p. 19.