History Creator / AngelaCarter

** Also Carter wrote the Essay The Sadeian Woman were she described the works of Creator/MarquisDeSade as the first to present women as more than just to have children.

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%%* MagicalRealism
* {{Mythpunk}}
* {{Postmodernism}}

* ''Literature/TheMagicToyshop''

* IncestIsRelative: A recurring theme in her work.
* MagicalRealism

Born to working-class parents, Angela displayed a talent for writing from an early age. After marrying her first husband and attending the University of Bristol, her work started getting published and she won the Somerset Maugham Award. With the income from that, she divorced her husband and moved to Japan, where, in her own words, she "learned what it is to be a woman and was radicalised".

* YouSexyBeast: In the aforementioned ''Doctor Hoffman'', some centaurs get extremely intimate with both the hero and his lover Albertina.

Born to Working-Class Parents, Angela was talented from an early age, however she had a mother who wanted her to remain a kid, in revenge she did everything her mother didn't want with delight. After marrying she went to University, she began to published and won the Somerset Maugham Award, she moved to Japan where her work was forever changed.


She returned to Britain with Japan remaining her works like "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" and Fireworks. After working as a teacher with a new stay at home husband, she wrote "The Bloody Chamber" which results in her becoming a writer full time, she was friends with Jeanette Winterson and ''Neil Jordon'' whom she co-wrote the Film ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves''. Sadly her success was shortlived, she died of Cancer in 1992 leaving her Second Husband, her son and a giant legacy.
In 2018 a Documentary on the BBC had ''Creator/MargaretAtwood'', ''Anne Enright'' and ''Salman Rushdie'' among others talk of their friendship with Carter and her works.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Parodied in ''The Passion of New Eve''.

She returned to Britain with Japan remaining her works like "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" and Fireworks. After working as a teacher with a new stay at home husband, she wrote "The Bloody Chamber" which results in her becoming a writer full time, she was friends with Jeanette Winterson and ''Creator/NeilJordon'' whom she co-wrote the Film ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves''. Sadly her success was shortlived, she died of Cancer in 1992 leaving her Second Husband, her son and a giant legacy.
In 2018 a Documentary on the BBC had ''Creator/MargaretAtwood'', Anne Enright and Salman Rushdie among others talk of their friendship with Carter and her works.

Born to Working-Class Parents, Angela was talented from an early age, however she had a mother who wanted her to remain a kid, in revenge she did everything her mother didn't want with delight. After marrying she went to University, she began to published and won the Somerset Maugham Award, she moved to Japan where her work was forever changed. She returned to Britain with Japan remaining her works like "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" and Fireworks. After working as a teacher with a new stay at home husband, she wrote "The Bloody Chamber" which results in her becoming a writer full time, she was friends with Jeanette Winterson and Neil Jordon whom she co-wrote the Film ''Film/TheCompanyOfWolves''. Sadly her success was shortlived, she died of Cancer in 1992 leaving her Second Husband, her son and a giant legacy.

Angela Carter (1940-92) was a British fiction writer and feminist scholar.

'''Angela Carter''' (1940-92) was a British fiction writer and feminist scholar.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Parodied in ''The Passion of New Eve''
* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: The hero of ''The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman'' finds himself among the Acrobats of Desire, an all-male circus troupe, who take it in turns to sodomise him until he barely knows who he is. Being a Carter story, this is presented not so much as massively traumatic, as just another part of the hero's CharacterDevelopment.

* WhamLine: The last sentence of "Lizzie's Tiger." [[spoiler:She's Lizzie Borden]].

* MythPunk

* ''ThePassionOfNewEve''

* ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber'':

'''Angela Carter''' (1940-92) was a British MagicalRealism writer and feminist.

'''Angela Carter''' was a British MagicalRealism writer and feminist.

* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Parodied in ''ThePassionOfNewEve''
* {{Grimmification}}: ''Literature/TheBloodyChamber''