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Angela Carter

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    (May 7, 1940-February 16, 1992)
    Born in Eastbourne, United Kingdom
    Birth name was Angela Olive Stalker
    Best known as the author of ‘The Bloody Chamber’ (1979)
    Other works include ‘Heroes and Villains’ (1969), ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman’ (1972), ‘Fireworks’ (1974),’ The Passion of New Eve’ (1977), ‘The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography’ (1979), ‘Nothing Sacred’ (1982), ‘Nights at the Circus’ (1984), ‘Black Venus’ (1985), ‘Wise Children’ (1991), and ‘Expletives Deleted’ (1992)
    Wrote the screenplays for ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1984) and ‘The Magic Toyshop’ (1987)

Why she might be annoying:

    Andrea Dworkin called her ‘a pseudo-feminist.’
    She wrote a book calling Marquis De Sade a misunderstood ‘moral pornographer.’
    She said: ‘One of the reasons why I'm a writer is that I'm basically unemployable.’
    She divorced her first husband while on sabbatical in Japan (and admitted to having cheated on him before sending him a Dear John Letter).
    The American edition of her book ‘The Bloody Chamber’ called her fairy tales ‘horribly adult.'
    She was actually criticized in the other direction by some critics who claimed she didn’t go far enough in breaking taboos.
    For instance, one critic complained that Carter ‘could never have imagined Cinderella in bed with the fairy God-mother’ (because Red Riding Hood having consensual sex with the Big Bad Wolf clearly wasn’t daring enough…).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She spent two years living in Japan.
    Her favorite films were ‘The Blue Angel,’ ‘Breathless,’ and ‘A Fistful of Dollars.’
    She inspired authors as diverse as Anne Enright and Neil Gaiman.
    She rejected an Oxford education to work as a journalist with the Croydon Advertiser.
    The 1980’s saw a major revival of interest in her work after the film adaptation of her short story ‘Company of Wolves’ by Neil Jordan.
    She was working on a book inspired by Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, which would have focused on Eyre’s stepdaughter Adele, before she died of Lung Cancer at her home in London.
    The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of ‘The 50 greatest British writers since 1945,’ in 2008.
    ‘Nights at the Circus’ was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2012.
    Her work was groundbreaking in how it deconstructed fairy tales, or in her own words: ‘extract[ed] the latent content from the traditional stories.’

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