Angela Carter - Wikipedia Angela Carter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search English novelist Angela Carter Born Angela Olive Stalker (1940-05-07)7 May 1940 Eastbourne, England Died 16 February 1992(1992-02-16) (aged 51) London, England Occupation Novelist, short story writer, poet, journalist Nationality British Alma mater University of Bristol Spouse Paul Carter ​ ​ (m. 1960; div. 1972)​ Mark Pearce ​ ​ (m. 1977)​ Children 1 Website www.angelacarter.co.uk Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, née Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. She is best known for her book The Bloody Chamber, which was published in 1979. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[1] In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[2] Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Novels 2.2 Short fiction collections 2.3 Poetry collections 2.4 Dramatic works 2.5 Children's books 2.6 Non-fiction 2.7 As editor 2.8 As translator 2.9 Film adaptations 2.10 Radio plays 2.11 Television 3 Works on Angela Carter 4 Commemoration 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links Biography[edit] This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, to Sophia Olive (née Farthing; 1905–1969), a cashier at Selfridge's, and journalist Hugh Alexander Stalker (1896–1988),[3] Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother.[4] After attending Streatham and Clapham High School, in south London, she began work as a journalist on The Croydon Advertiser,[5] following in her father's footsteps. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature.[6][7] She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter,[5] divorcing in 1972. In 1969, she used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised".[8] She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She then explored the United States, Asia and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia. In 1977, Carter met Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son and whom she married shortly before her death.[9] In 1979, both The Bloody Chamber, and her feminist essay, The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography,[10] appeared. In the essay, according to the writer Marina Warner, Carter "deconstructs the arguments that underlie The Bloody Chamber. It's about desire and its destruction, the self-immolation of women, how women collude and connive with their condition of enslavement. She was much more independent-minded than the traditional feminist of her time."[11] As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg.[12] She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of her fictions have been adapted for film: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved in both adaptations;[13] her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, The Holy Family Album, are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003). Her novel Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature. Her last novel, Wise Children, is a surreal wild ride through British theatre and music hall traditions. Carter died aged 51 in 1992 at her home in London after developing lung cancer.[14][15] At the time of her death, she had started work on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre based on the later life of Jane's stepdaughter, Adèle Varens; only a synopsis survives.[16] Works[edit] Novels[edit] Shadow Dance (1966, also known as Honeybuzzard) The Magic Toyshop (1967) Several Perceptions (1968) Heroes and Villains (1969) Love (1971) The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972, also known as The War of Dreams) The Passion of New Eve (1977) Nights at the Circus (1984) Wise Children (1991) Short fiction collections[edit] Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974; also published as Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises and Fireworks) The Bloody Chamber (1979) The Bridegroom (1983) (Uncollected short story) Black Venus (1985; published as Saints and Strangers in the United States) American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993) Burning Your Boats (1995) Poetry collections[edit] Five Quiet Shouters (1966) Unicorn (1966) Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter (2015) Dramatic works[edit] Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays (1985) The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera (1996) (includes Carter's screenplays for adaptations of The Company of Wolves and The Magic Toyshop; also includes the contents of Come Unto These Golden Sands: Four Radio Plays) Children's books[edit] The Donkey Prince (1970, illustrated by Eros Keith) Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970, illustrated by Eros Keith) Comic and Curious Cats (1979, illustrated by Martin Leman) Moonshadow (1982) illustrated by Justin Todd Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000, illustrated by Eva Tatcheva) Non-fiction[edit] The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1979) Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings (1982) Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992) Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writing (1997) She wrote two entries in "A Hundred Things Japanese" published in 1975 by the Japan Culture Institute. ISBN 0-87040-364-8 It says "She has lived in Japan both from 1969 to 1971 and also during 1974" (p. 202). As editor[edit] Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) a.k.a. The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992) a.k.a. Strange Things Still Sometimes Happen: Fairy Tales From Around the World (1993) Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005) (collects the two Virago Books above) As translator[edit] The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1977) Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982) illustrated by Michael Foreman (Perrault stories with two by Leprince de Beaumont) Film adaptations[edit] The Company of Wolves (1984) adapted by Carter with Neil Jordan from her short story of the same name, "Wolf-Alice" and "The Werewolf" The Magic Toyshop (1987) adapted by Carter from her novel of the same name, and directed by David Wheatley Radio plays[edit] Vampirella (1976) written by Carter and directed by Glyn Dearman for BBC. Formed the basis for the short story "The Lady of the House of Love". Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1979) The Company of Wolves (1980) adapted by Carter from her short story of the same name, and directed by Glyn Dearman for BBC Puss-in-Boots (1982) adapted by Carter from her short story and directed by Glyn Dearman for BBC A Self-Made Man (1984) Television[edit] The Holy Family Album (1991) Omnibus: Angela Carter's Curious Room (1992) Works on Angela Carter[edit] Crofts, Charlotte, "Curiously downbeat hybrid" or "radical retelling"? – Neil Jordan’s and Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves. In Cartmell, Deborah, I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye and Imelda Whelehan (eds), Sisterhoods Across the Literature Media Divide, London: Pluto Press, 1998, pp.48–63.] Crofts, Charlotte, Anagrams of Desire: Angela Carter's Writing for Radio, Film and Television. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. Crofts, Charlotte, ‘The Other of the Other’: Angela Carter’s ‘New-Fangled’ Orientalism. In Munford, Rebecca Re-Visiting Angela Carter Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp.87–109. Dimovitz, Scott A., Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer. New York: Routledge, 2016. Dimovitz, Scott A. 'I Was the Subject of the Sentence Written on the Mirror: Angela Carter's Short Fiction and the Unwriting of the Psychoanalytic Subject.' Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 21.1 (2010): 1–19. Dimovitz, Scott A., 'Angela Carter’s Narrative Chiasmus: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and The Passion of New Eve.' Genre XVII (2009): 83–111. Dimovitz, Scott A., 'Cartesian Nuts: Rewriting the Platonic Androgyne in Angela Carter’s Japanese Surrealism'. FEMSPEC: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Journal, 6:2 (December 2005): 15–31. Dmytriieva, Valeriia V., 'Gender Alterations in English and French Modernist "Bluebeard" Fairytale'. ' English Language and literature studies, 6:3. (2016): 16–20. Enright, Anne (17 February 2011). "Diary". London Review of Books. 33 (4): 38–39. Gordon, Edmund, The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography London: Chatto & Windus, 2016. Kérchy, Anna, Body-Texts in the Novels of Angela Carter. Writing from a Corporeagraphic Perspective. Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. Milne, Andrew, The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter, Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit, Université, 2006. Milne, Andrew, Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A Reader's Guide, Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université, 2007. Munford, Rebecca (ed.), Re-Visiting Angela Carter Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Tonkin, Maggie, Angela Carter and Decadence: Critical Fictions/Fictional Critiques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Topping, Angela, Focus on The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories London: The Greenwich Exchange, 2009. Commemoration[edit] English Heritage unveiled a blue plaque at Carter's final home at 107, The Chase in Clapham, South London in September 2019. She wrote many of her books in the sixteen years she lived at the address, as well as tutoring the young Kazuo Ishiguro.[17] In 2008, the British Library acquired the Angela Carter Papers, a large collection of 224 files and volumes containing manuscripts, correspondence, personal diaries, photographs and audio cassettes.[18] References[edit] ^ The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. 5 January 2008. The Times. Retrieved on 27 July 2018. ^ Alison Flood (6 December 2012). "Angela Carter named best ever winner of James Tait Black award". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 December 2012. ^ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50941. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) ^ http://www.angelacartersite.co.uk/ Archived 7 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 November 2015. ^ a b "Angela Carter". 17 February 1992. Retrieved 18 May 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk. ^ "Angela Carter - Biography". The Guardian. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2014. ^ "Angela Carter's Feminism". www.newyorker.com. ^ Hill, Rosemary (22 October 2016). "The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 29 September 2017. ^ Gordon, Edmund (1 October 2016). "Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale". Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via www.theguardian.com. ^ John Dugdale (16 February 2017). "Angela's influence: what we owe to Carter". The Guardian. ^ Marina Warner, speaking on Radio Three's the Verb, February 2012 ^ "Book of a Lifetime: Shaking a Leg, By Angela Carter". The Independent. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 29 September 2017. ^ Jordison, Sam (24 February 2017). "Angela Carter webchat – your questions answered by biographer Edmund Gordon". Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via www.theguardian.com. ^ Sarah Waters (3 October 2009). "My hero: Angela Carter". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2014. ^ Michael Dirda, "The Unconventional Life of Angela Carter - prolific author, reluctant feminist," The Washington Post, 8 March 2017. ^ Clapp, Susannah (29 January 2006). "The greatest swinger in town". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 April 2010. ^ Flood, Alison (11 September 2019). "Angela Carter's 'carnival' London home receives blue plaque". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 September 2019. ^ Angela Carter Papers Catalogue the British Library. Retrieved 6 May 2020. Further reading[edit] Acocella, Joan (13 March 2017). "Metamorphoses : how Angela Carter became feminism's great mythologist". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 93 (4): 71–76.[1] Wisker, Gina. "At Home all was Blood and Feathers: The Werewolf in the Kitchen - Angela Carter and Horror". In Clive Bloom (ed), Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. London and Boulder CO: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 161–75. External links[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to: Angela Carter Official website of the Estate of Angela Carter Angela Carter at British Council: Literature BBC interview (video, 25 June 1991, 25 mins) Petri Liukkonen. "Angela Carter". Books and Writers Angela Carter at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Angela Carter on IMDb "Angela Carter remembered" Daily Telegraph 3 May 2010 A Conversation with Angela Carter by Anna Katsavos, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 1994, Vol. 14.3 Angela Carter talks about her life and work to Elizabeth Jolley, British Library (audio, 1988, 53 mins) Essay on Colette, Vol. 2 No. 19 · 2 October 1980, London Review of Books by Angela Carter Angela Carter's radio work Angela Carter at the British Library v t e Works by Angela Carter Novels Shadow Dance The Magic Toyshop Several Perceptions Heroes and Villains Love The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman The Passion of New Eve Nights at the Circus Wise Children Short fiction Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces The Bloody Chamber The Bridegroom Black Venus American Ghosts and Old World Wonders Burning Your Boats Dramatic works The Curious Room The Holy Family Album Children's books The Donkey Prince Comic and Curious Cats Non-fiction The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography Film adaptations The Company of Wolves The Magic Toyshop Related Anagrams of Desire Authority control BNE: XX1038650 BNF: cb118953566 (data) CANTIC: a11683338 GND: 119058804 ISNI: 0000 0001 2127 2038 LCCN: n79088989 MBA: 06fc69eb-5775-40ae-999a-c1d4106dfc47 NDL: 00435420 NKC: jo2004213804 NLA: 35086688 NLI: 001848852 NLK: KAC199604535 NLP: A11880582 NTA: 069043337 PLWABN: 9810552823905606 SELIBR: 180311 SNAC: w61v7cj4 SUDOC: 02676945X Trove: 822468 VIAF: 34454299 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79088989 ^ Online version is titled "Angela Carter's feminist mythology". 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