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Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, née Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979).
Angela Carter was born on 7 May 1940 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK. She was a writer, known for The Company of Wolves (1984), The Magic Toyshop (1987) and Scary Stories Around the Fire (2021). She was married to Mark Pierce and Paul Carter. She died on 16 February 1992 in London, England, UK.
- Writer
- May 7, 1940
- Angela Carter
- February 16, 1992
Mar 28, 2017 · As Edmund Gordon relates in his exhaustive and enchanting new biography The Invention of Angela Carter, only a raft of reverent obituaries and a BBC television profile that aired just after her...
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The Company of Wolves is a 1984 British gothic fantasy horror film directed by Neil Jordan and starring Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Micha Bergese, and Sarah Patterson in her film debut. The screenplay by Angela Carter and Jordan was adapted from her 1979 short story of the same name. [4]
Almost twenty five years later, and with Edmund Gordon’s eagerly awaited The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography now in the bookshops, the fascination and admiration surrounding her work continues to grow from strength to strength.
Hattie Morahan plays the young Angela (with extracts from unpublished letters and diaries), while Maureen Lipman, Kelly MacDonald and Laura Fraser read from Carter’s fiction.
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Susannah Clapp is the theatre critic of The Observer. As an accompaniment to the talk, the actress Hattie Morahan, fresh from her success in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Young Vic, will read one of Angela Carter’s most subversive short stories, The Tiger’s Bride, inspired by Beauty and the Beast.
