She had taken out an ‘immense’ life insurance policy shortly before the cancer struck. You’re going to be seeing a lot more of me from now on’ – and at the same time courteous enough to overcome mortal suffering for the gentility of a formal afternoon tea.ĭeath genuinely pissed Angela off, but she had one consolation.
That is what she was like: spikily outspoken – once, after I’d come to the end of a relationship of which she had not approved, she telephoned me to say, ‘Well. She sat bright-eyed and erect, head cocked like a parrot’s, lips satirically pursed, and got down to the serious teatime business of giving and receiving the latest dirt: sharp, foulmouthed, passionate. The last time I visited Angela Carter, a few weeks before she died, she had insisted on dressing for tea, in spite of being in considerable pain. The Curious Room: Collected Dramatic Works The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural HistoryĬome unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (editor) She was the author of The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1979), and two collections of journalism, Nothing Sacred (1982) and Expletives Deleted (1992). Four collections of her short stories have been published: Fireworks (1974), The Bloody Chamber (1979, Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award), Black Venus (1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993). Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by The Magic Toyshop (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Several Perceptions (1968, Somerset Maugham Award), Heroes and Villains (1969), Love (1971), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972), The Passion of New Eve (1977), Nights at the Circus (1984, James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and Wise Children (1991). She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia.
She read English at Bristol University, and from 1976–8 was a fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield University.
In Burning your Boats they were gathered for the first time this is a key collection and required reading for Angela Carter aficionados.Īngela Carter was born in 1940. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are now out of print. Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night’s DreamĪMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993Īs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979 A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home
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