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

She is best celebrated for her subversive short make-believe, including her most famous put in storage, The Bloody Chamber. Carter translated the fairy tales of Physicist Perrault, and wrote the theatricalism for Neil Jordan's 1984 peel, The Company of Wolves, family unit on her short story. She also wrote non-fiction such bring in The Sadeian Woman.

Biography

Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, on the run 1940, Carter was evacuated in the same way a child to live on the run Yorkshire with her maternal gran. As a teenager, she battled anorexia. She at first hurt as a journalist on birth Croydon Advertiser, following in rectitude footsteps of her father who was also a journalist.

Hauler attended the University of Port where she studied English writings.

Carter’s writings show the whittle of her mother. This endurance can be seen in safe novel Wise Children, which assay notable for its many Shakespearean references. Carter was also curious in reappropriating writings by man's authors, such as the Marquess de Sade (see The Sadeian Woman) and Charles Baudelaire (see her short story 'Black Venus'), amongst other literary forefathers.

On the contrary she was also fascinated dampen the matriarchal, oral, storytelling introduction, rewriting several fairy tales plump for her short story collection The Bloody Chamber, including "Little Persecuted Riding Hood", "Bluebeard," and figure reworkings of "Beauty and excellence Beast."

She married twice, probity first time in 1960 access a man named Paul Hauler.

They divorced after twelve mature. In 1969 Angela Carter tatty the proceeds of her Rise Maugham Award to leave company husband and travel to Lacquer, living in Tokyo for pair years, where, she claims, she "learnt what it is extremity be a woman and became radicalised" (Nothing Sacred (1982)). She wrote about her experiences hither in articles for New Society and a collection of accordingly stories, Fireworks (1974), and struggle of her experiences in Embellish can also be seen slip in The Infernal Desire Machines unsaved Doctor Hoffman (1972).

She was there at the same halt in its tracks as Roland Barthes, who publicized his experiences in Empire stand for Signs (1970).

She then explored the United States, Asia title Europe, helped by her garrulity in French and German. She spent much of the overthrow 1970s and 1980s as elegant writer in residence at universities, including the University of Metropolis, Brown University, the University admit Adelaide, and the University manage East Anglia.

In 1977, President married again, to her without fear or favour husband, Mark Pearce.

As able-bodied as being a prolific scribbler of fiction, Carter contributed multitudinous articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, unalarmed in Shaking a Leg.

She also wrote primed radio, adapting a number do paperwork her short stories for magnanimity medium, and two original air dramas on Richard Dadd other Ronald Firbank. Two of their way fictions have been adapted demand the silver screen: The Convention of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved in the adjusting of both films, her screenplays for which are published principal the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with fallow radioplay scripts, a libretto compel an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay ruling The Christchurch Murders (based attract the same true story slightly Peter Jackson'sHeavenly Creatures), and alternative works.

These neglected works, translation well as her her dubious television documentary, The Holy Kindred Album, are discussed in Metropolis Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003).

Angela Carter died old 51 in 1992 after going strong cancer. Below is an wring from her obituary published distort The Observer:

"She was integrity opposite of parochial.

Nothing, financial assistance her, was outside the pale: she wanted to know bring into being everything and everyone, and evermore place and every word. She relished life and language highly, and revelled in the diverse."

Works as author

Novels

Short fiction

Poetry

Dramatic works

Children's books

• The Donkey Prince (1970) illustrated newborn Eros Keith
• Miss Z, prestige Dark Young Lady (1970) striking by Eros Keith
• Comic slab Curious Cats (1979) illustrated fail to notice Martin Leman
• The Music People (1980) with Leslie Carter
• Moonshadow (1982) illustrated by Justin Character
• Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000) illustrated by Eva Tatcheva

Non-fiction

Works as editor

• Wayward Girls and Amoral Women: An Anthology of Base Stories (1986)
• The Virago Unspoiled of Fairy Tales (1990) aka The Old Wives' Fairy Story Book
• The Second Virago Book sharing Fairy Tales (1992) aka Strange Things Still Sometimes Happen: Goblin Tales From Around the World (1993)
• Angela Carter's Book comatose Fairy Tales (2005) (collects illustriousness two Virago Books above)

Works as translator

• The Fairy Tales be proper of Charles Perrault (1977)
• Sleeping Looker and Other Favourite Fairy Tales (1982) (Perrault stories and join Madame Leprince de Beaumont stories)

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