Angela Carter
Born 1940 · Died 1992
Angela Carter (born May 7, 1940, Eastbourne, Sussex, Eng.—died Feb. 16, 1992, London) was a British author who reshaped motifs from mythology, legends, and fairy tales in her books, lending them a ghastly humour and eroticism.
Carter rejected an Oxford education to work as a journalist with the Croydon Advertiser, but she later studied medieval literature at the University of Bristol (B.A., 1965). She had moderate success with her novels Shadow Dance (1966; also published as Honeybuzzard) and The Magic Toyshop (1967; filmed 1986). Her other novels include Several Perceptions (1968), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), The Passion of New Eve (1977), and Wise Children (1991). Carter’s fiction gained new popularity in the 1980s, notably after the release of the motion picture The Company of Wolves (1984), which she cowrote; the film was based on a story from The Bloody Chamber (1979), a collection of her adaptations of fairy tales. Her interest in the macabre and the sensual was reflected in The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1979), a polemical study of the female characters in the writings of the marquis de Sade. She also wrote radio plays, children’s books, and essays.
– www.britannica.com/biography/Angela-Carter
Quotes
“Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.”
The Kitchen Child 1976 . “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings 1992 . “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Chapter 5 “Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings 1998 .
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Books by Angela Carter in order
Books by Angela Carter in the order they were published, from Shadow Dance (1966) to The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter (2008).
- 1Shadow Dance
Shadow Dance1966 - 2The Magic Toyshop
The Magic Toyshop1967 - 3Several Perceptions
Several Perceptions1968 - 4Heroes & Villains
Heroes & Villains1969 - 5The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman1972 - 6Fireworks
Fireworks1974 - 7The Passion of New Eve
The Passion of New Eve1977 - 8The Bloody Chamber
The Bloody Chamber1978 - 9The Sadeian Woman
The Sadeian Woman1978 - 10The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories
The Bloody Chamber, and Other Stories1979 - 11Nothing Sacred
Nothing Sacred1982 - 12Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus1984 - 13Black Venus
Black Venus1985 - 14Saints and Strangers
Saints and Strangers1986 - 15Wayward Girls & Wicked Women
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women1989 - 16The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book1990 - 17Wise Children
Wise Children1991 - 18American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders1993 - 19Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen
Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen1993 - 20Burning Your Boats
Burning Your Boats1995 - 21Shaking a Leg
Shaking a Leg1997 - 22Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales2005 - 23The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber By Angela Carter2008 - 24The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edit
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)