Carter, Angela
Carter, Angela (1940–92),British fiction writer whose most acclaimed work, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), rewrites classic fairy tales for adults in a woman‐centred and erotically charged way.
Born in London, Carter worked as a journalist, studied medieval literature in Bristol, and in her late twenties became an award‐winning novelist. After ending her first marriage, she lived in Japan, where her 1960s radicalism became informed by a strong feminist consciousness. Carter also taught in the United States and travelled to Australia, but remained rooted in a south London sensibility fortified by her grandmother's Yorkshire spirit. At the age of 51 and at the height of her creative powers, she died of lung cancer, survived by her second husband and young son. She published four collections of short stories, nine novels (Shadow Dance was her first in 1966 and Wise Children her last in 1991), and...
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