Angela Carter (1940–92) was a British novelist, who also wrote poetry, short fiction, nonfiction, radio plays, and film adaptations. She drew from a diverse range of themes and influences and is one of the most widely studied writers of British fiction.
Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, England, Stalker contributed articles to The Guardian, The Independent, and New Statesman. Her novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967,) The Passion of New Eve (1977,) and Nights at the Circus (1984.)
Angela Carter’s short-story collection The Bloody Chamber (1979,) her most significant work, was a beautiful feminist re-imagination of classic European fairy tales. It was eventually adapted for radio, and then film, as The Company of Wolves.
Interest in Carter’s literary work abruptly increased after her death, together with a rapid rise in book sales and numerous stage adaptations of her work.
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
—Angela Carter
Topics: Experience
I think it’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
—Angela Carter
Women’s sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
—Angela Carter
Topics: Fashion
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you’re faced with somebody whose needs won’t be put off.
—Angela Carter
Topics: Mothers
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
—Angela Carter
Topics: Relationships
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