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Angela Carter (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist works.

Born Angela Olive Stalker inside Eastbourne, in 1940, she ab initio worked as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser. She married twice, allowing her number 1 hubby using the payoff of the Somerset Maugham Award for literature and disbursal deuce years dwelling around Tokyo. She so explored a United States, Asia and Europe. These lives experienced the caring influence in her in the future writing. She spent very much of a late 1970s & Eighties as a writer within home at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide and the University of East Anglia.

Carter as well contributed numbers of articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman.

Both of her works keep around been adapted into films, for which she wrote a screenplays: The Company of Wolves in 1984, and The Magic Toyshop in 1987.

Angela Carter died around 1992 after developing cancer.

Novels
Short Stories
Anthologies
Children's Books
Non-fiction

The Ravished Reader:
Thesis about Angela Carter's allegory in Nights at the Circus, written by Marita Kristiansen at the University of Bergen.

Tall Tales and Brief Lives
Exploration of the role of narrative techniques in Nights at the Circus. By Brian Finney.

Angela Carter
Biography, bibliography, an essay, message board and chat room devoted to the author.


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