Angela Carter
1940-1992
1940-1992
Mini Biography
Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne in 1940 and was later evacuated with her grandmother to Yorkshire. This is where she spent her teenager years suffering with anorexia.
She became a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser before going on to study English Literature at the University of Bristol. In 1960 she married Paul Carter and continued to write, winning the Somerset Maugham award. She used to money she had raised to divorce her husband after 9 years of marriage and moved to Tokyo where she spent the next 2 years.
On her return she spent many years writing at many universities across Europe and America. In 1977 Carter remarried to Mark Pearce and had a son.
Despite all this she continued to write non-fiction, short stories, radio scripts, anthologies and even started her own sequel to Jane Eyre based on Adele Verons. According to the Times she ranked number 10 in their list of greatest authors since 1945.
In 1991 she was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away soon after aged 52.
Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne in 1940 and was later evacuated with her grandmother to Yorkshire. This is where she spent her teenager years suffering with anorexia.
She became a journalist for the Croydon Advertiser before going on to study English Literature at the University of Bristol. In 1960 she married Paul Carter and continued to write, winning the Somerset Maugham award. She used to money she had raised to divorce her husband after 9 years of marriage and moved to Tokyo where she spent the next 2 years.
On her return she spent many years writing at many universities across Europe and America. In 1977 Carter remarried to Mark Pearce and had a son.
Despite all this she continued to write non-fiction, short stories, radio scripts, anthologies and even started her own sequel to Jane Eyre based on Adele Verons. According to the Times she ranked number 10 in their list of greatest authors since 1945.
In 1991 she was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away soon after aged 52.
Shadow Dance,
The Magic Toyshop,
Heroes and Villains,
Several Perceptions,
The Donkey Prince,
Miss Z
Love, The Music People,
Moonshadow,
Nights at the Circus
Artificial Fire,
Wise Children,
Sea-Cat & Dragon King
Her anthologies include
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The Bloody Chamber,
Comic and Curious Cats,
American Ghosts
Old World Wonders,
Black Venus,
Burning Your Boats
The nonfiction works are
The Sadeian Woman & the Ideology of Pornography
Nothing Sacred
Images of Frida Kahlo
GenresGothic, Magical Realism, Short story, novel, Romance, Erotica, Fairy Tale, Non-fiction, Children stories, journalistic, post-modern, post-Freud, Bilgundsroman
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The Bloody Chamber,
Comic and Curious Cats,
American Ghosts
Old World Wonders,
Black Venus,
Burning Your Boats
The nonfiction works are
The Sadeian Woman & the Ideology of Pornography
Nothing Sacred
Images of Frida Kahlo
Key Points
GenresGothic, Magical Realism, Short story, novel, Romance, Erotica, Fairy Tale, Non-fiction, Children stories, journalistic, post-modern, post-Freud, Bilgundsroman
InfluencesSurrealism, Feminism, Marxism, The Maquis de Sade, Goethe, Schubert, her Mother, Chaucer, Shakespeare,
Lawrence, Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Mansfield, Woolf, Dickens, Keats,
Stoker, Carroll. Tokyo.
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