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Angela Carter

Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a British writer and journalist, best known for her book of stories The Bloody Chamber, a collection of her adaptations of fairy tales. Her novels include The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Wise Children and Nights at the Circus, which won the 1984 James Tate Black Memorial Prize.

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Fiction | Issue 3 padlock
Fiction | Issue 3 padlock

Cousins

Angela Carter

‘It sounded like the birth of tragedy.’

Poetry | Issue 120 padlock
Poetry | Issue 120 padlock

The Lady and the Skull

Angela Carter

‘I believed I had defined the problem. / With which the picked skull had presented me.’

Fiction | Issue 25 padlock
Fiction | Issue 25 padlock

’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Angela Carter

‘Silence and space and an unimaginable freedom which they dare not imagine.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 8
Essays & Memoir | Issue 8

Sugar Daddy

Angela Carter

‘However unconsciously, as if that were an excuse, he’d prepared a potentially lethal bed for this daughter’s lover.’

Angela Carter about her father.

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