Angela Carter was a renowned feminist, writer, journalist and author who was born on 7th May 1940. She was born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne and attended Streatham and Clapham High School.

Angela Carter: “My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man’s penis. ... Her untimely death in 1992, as Edmund Gordon, author of The Invention of Angela Carter, puts it, ...

The fantastical author Angela Carter died 14 years ago, but her work has never been more popular. Christina Patterson goes in search of the reasons why her gender-bending fairytales and gothic ...

Books & the Arts; October 26, 2017; Angela Carter: Breaking the Spell Breaking the Spell For Angela Carter, literature had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world.

Although other Carter books are more conventionally “feminist” — notably “Nights at the Circus,” which, in 2012, was voted the best book in the venerable James Tait Black Memorial Prize ...

That’s why when I came across Angela Carter, I was hesitant. My best friend had told me that if I loved magical realism, I should try reading something by the renowned English author. I didn’t see how ...

On the 20th anniversary of Angela Carter’s death, ... Midnight’s Children was published in 1981, for example, I was very proud that, at the London Review of Books where I worked, ...

Her marriage to Paul Carter, a dour stalwart of the 1960s folk music scene, was miserable. That said, Angela made lifelong friends during their years living in Bristol and, by the time the couple ...

As a 10-year-old, I bought every title in the groundbreaking Adult Fantasy series edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books, which had made a fortune with the American paperback ...