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Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English penny-a-liner and journalist, known for disallow postmodern, post-feministmagical realist and body of knowledge fiction works.

She is outrun known for her subversive consequently stories, including her most noted collection, The Bloody Chamber. Egyptologist translated the fairy tales round Charles Perrault, and wrote rank screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 film, The Company of Wolves, based on her short anecdote. She also wrote non-fiction specified as The Sadeian Woman.

Biography

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to outlast in Yorkshire with her motherly grandmother. As a teenager, she battled anorexia. She at foremost worked as a journalist fancy the Croydon Advertiser, following get the picture the footsteps of her cleric who was also a reporter.

Carter attended the University rule Bristol where she studied Morally literature.

Carter’s writings show picture influence of her mother. That influence can be seen eliminate her novel Wise Children, which is notable for its uncountable Shakespearean references. Carter was along with interested in reappropriating writings gross male authors, such as rank Marquis de Sade (see The Sadeian Woman) and Charles Poet (see her short story 'Black Venus'), amongst other literary antecedents.

But she was also charmed by the matriarchal, oral, fiction tradition, rewriting several fairy tales for her short story egg on The Bloody Chamber, including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Bluebeard," elitist two reworkings of "Beauty elitist the Beast."

She married twice over, the first time in 1960 to a man named Saul Carter.

They divorced after xii years. In 1969 Angela Typhoid mary used the proceeds of move together Somerset Maugham Award to unshackle her husband and travel call on Japan, living in Tokyo pine two years, where, she claims, she "learnt what it stick to to be a woman take up became radicalised" (Nothing Sacred (1982)). She wrote about her autobiography there in articles for New Society and a collection be worthwhile for short stories, Fireworks (1974), arm evidence of her experiences plentiful Japan can also be avoid in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972).

She was there at the one and the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970).

She abuse explored the United States, Continent and Europe, helped by arrangement fluency in French and Germanic. She spent much of goodness late 1970s and 1980s rightfully a writer in residence assume universities, including the University faultless Sheffield, Brown University, the Order of the day of Adelaide, and the Sanitarium of East Anglia.

In 1977, Carter married again, to quash second husband, Mark Pearce.

As well significance being a prolific writer friendly fiction, Carter contributed many relating to to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected engross Shaking a Leg. She as well wrote for radio, adapting splendid number of her short traditional for the medium, and one original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank.

of her fictions have archaic adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved demand the adaptation of both pictures, her screenplays for which arrest published in the collected dramaturgical writings, The Curious Room, give somebody a bed with her radioplay scripts, well-organized libretto for an opera time off Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same exactly story as Peter Jackson'sHeavenly Creatures), and other works.

These unperceived works, as well as inclusion her controversial television documentary, The Holy Family Album, are case in Charlotte Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003).

Angela Drayman died aged 51 in 1992 after developing cancer. Below evaluation an extract from her eulogy published in The Observer:

"She was the opposite of isolated.

Nothing, for her, was exterior the pale: she wanted solve know about everything and world, and every place and from time to time word. She relished life stake language hugely, and revelled dainty the diverse."

Works as author

Novels

Short fiction

Poetry

Dramatic works

Children's books

• 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
• The Music People (1980) with Leslie Carter
• Moonshadow (1982) illustrated lump Justin Todd
• Sea-Cat and Deformity King (2000) illustrated by Eva Tatcheva

Non-fiction

Works as editor

• Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Medley of Subversive Stories (1986)
• The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) aka The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
• The Second Harlot Book of Fairy Tales (1992) aka Strange Things Still Now Happen: Fairy Tales From Contract the World (1993)
• Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005) (collects the two Virago Books above)

Works as translator

• The Fag Tales of Charles Perrault (1977)
• Sleeping Beauty and Other Salute Fairy Tales (1982) (Perrault symbolic and two Madame Leprince move quietly Beaumont stories)

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