Angela Carter (1940–1992)
Author of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
About the Author
A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life show more and death, of apocalypse. Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Angela Carter
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2018) 37 copies
Vintage Fear: " The Complete Fairy Tales " , " The Bloody Chamber " (Vintage Classic Twins) (2007) 29 copies
Sentence Diagramming Beginning: Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 3-12 ) (2016) 15 copies
The Bloody Chamber [short story] 9 copies
Sentence Diagramming Level 1 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 5-12 ) (2016) 8 copies
Sentence Diagramming Level 2 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 7-12 ) (2017) 7 copies
BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES,THE 6 copies
The Tiger's Bride [short story] 6 copies
BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES,THE 4 copies
Wolf-Alice [short story] 4 copies
Puss-in-Boots [short story] 4 copies
The Werewolf [short story] 3 copies
The Snow Child [short story] 3 copies
The War of Dreams 3 copies
The Erl-King [short story] 3 copies
The Snow Pavilion 2 copies
Meerkater und Drachenkönig 2 copies
Vampirella 2 copies
Peter And The Wolf 1 copy
BOOK OF THE FAIRY TALES 1 copy
The Erlking [short fiction] 1 copy
O quarto do Barba-azul 1 copy
Krvava odaja 1 copy
Carter, Angela Archive 1 copy
Carter Angela 1 copy
Maître 1 copy
花火―九つの冒涜的な物語 1 copy
Associated Works
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contributor — 570 copies
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Contributor — 485 copies
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributor — 380 copies
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 352 copies
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Contributor — 301 copies
Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995) — Contributor — 202 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 100 copies
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributor — 62 copies
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 60 copies
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contributor — 39 copies
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contributor — 37 copies
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contributor — 36 copies
Pulsar: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Futures: No. 1 (1978) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions (1993) — Contributor — 16 copies
Im Zeichen der Venus. Frauen schreiben erotische Geschichten ( Anthologie). (1985) — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Carter-Pearce, Angela Olive
Carter, Angela Olive
Stalker, Angela Olive (birth name) - Birthdate
- 1940-05-07
- Date of death
- 1992-02-16
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- UK
- Birthplace
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Cause of death
- cancer (lung)
- Places of residence
- Japan
USA
Australia
Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Education
- University of Bristol
- Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
children's writer
reporter - Relationships
- Enright, Anne (student)
- Organizations
- University of Sheffield (fellow ∙ creative writing)
- Awards and honors
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1982)
James Tiptree, Jr. Award (Special, 1997) - Agent
- Stephen Durbridge (The Agency)
Rogers, Coleridge & White
Members
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Snow Pavilion" by Angela Carter in The Weird Tradition (April 2021)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter--Bowie's Top 100 in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (November 2016)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE APRIL 2015 - CARTER & SOMERSET MAUGHAM in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (September 2015)
Reviews
I think Carter is at her best writing novels, but these short stories are still pretty grand. Little snippets of postcolonialist feminist academia is perhaps a better description than "story", however.
A remarkable work of the imagination and magical realism, "Nights at the Circus" is one of my favourite novels, and one I can always turn to to remind me that writing is an artform of limitless possibility.
The characters and setting are rich and vibrant and, while I don't particularly enjoy fantasy or sci-fi works, Carter's world here is like that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: anything is possible, but what happens always seems hauntingly, and depressingly, real. The difference between this and a Marquez work is that our protagonist is a reporter from the equally real world of fin-de-siecle England who finds himself unable to ascertain the boundaries between reality and fantasy. I acknowledge that not everyone will "get it", although I think that is BECAUSE there is nothing to get. This isn't a book with one meaning to be found on the last page, nor a book in which the fantastic elements are hiding some kind of comment on the 'real world'. This is instead a work of boundless beauty and effervescent figures living in an historical era, as all historical eras are: filled - or so it seems from our viewpoint - with possibility and impossibility. What it means, if anything, is for us to open our eyes to the world, even if - at the end of the day - seeing won't necessarily mean believing. Anything is possible but nothing is as it seems. Accept the confusion, relish it, and live amongst it. Or that's what I think, anyway.… (more)
The characters and setting are rich and vibrant and, while I don't particularly enjoy fantasy or sci-fi works, Carter's world here is like that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: anything is possible, but what happens always seems hauntingly, and depressingly, real. The difference between this and a Marquez work is that our protagonist is a reporter from the equally real world of fin-de-siecle England who finds himself unable to ascertain the boundaries between reality and fantasy. I acknowledge that not everyone will "get it", although I think that is BECAUSE there is nothing to get. This isn't a book with one meaning to be found on the last page, nor a book in which the fantastic elements are hiding some kind of comment on the 'real world'. This is instead a work of boundless beauty and effervescent figures living in an historical era, as all historical eras are: filled - or so it seems from our viewpoint - with possibility and impossibility. What it means, if anything, is for us to open our eyes to the world, even if - at the end of the day - seeing won't necessarily mean believing. Anything is possible but nothing is as it seems. Accept the confusion, relish it, and live amongst it. Or that's what I think, anyway.… (more)
Contains child abuse and multiple rape scenes.
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- Works
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- Rating
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Magical realism: 5 stars
Symbolism: 4 stars
Literary merit: 4 stars
Narrative coherence: 3 stars