Angela Carter

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Image:Angela carter.jpg Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works.

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, she at first worked as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser. She married twice, leaving her first husband using the proceeds of the Somerset Maugham Award for literature and spending two years living in Tokyo. She then explored the United States, Asia and Europe. 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.

Carter also contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman.

To date two films, The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987), have adapted her work. She wrote the scripts to both productions. The collection, The Curious Room, contains the scripts to both adaptations.

Angela Carter died in 1992 after developing cancer.

1 Works As Author
2 Works As Editor
3 External links

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Works As Author

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Novels

Shadow Dance (1966) aka Honeybuzzard

The Magic Toyshop (1967)

Several Perceptions (1968)

Heroes and Villains (1969)

Love (1971)

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) aka The War of Dreams

The Passion of New Eve (1977)

Nights at the Circus (1984)

Wise Children (1991)

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Short Fiction

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1970)

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979)

Black Venus (a.k.a. Saints and Strangers) (1985)

American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995)

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Dramatic Works

Come Unto These Golden 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)

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Children's Books

The Donkey Prince (1970)

Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)

Comic and Curious Cats (1979)

The Music People (1980)

Moonshadow (1982)

Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982)

Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)

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Non-fiction

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978)

Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings (1982)

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writing (1997)

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Works As Editor

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)

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