14 Facts About Angela Carter

Angela Olive Pearce, 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.

Angela Carter is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber.

Angela Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature.

Angela Carter married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter, ultimately divorcing in 1972.

Angela Carter wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and in a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces.

Angela Carter then explored the United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German.

Angela Carter spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer-in-residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia.

In 1977, Angela Carter met Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son and whom she eventually married shortly before her death in 1992.

Angela Carter was much more independent-minded than the traditional feminist of her time.

Angela Carter adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank.

Angela Carter was actively involved in both adaptations; her screenplays were subsequently published in The Curious Room, a collection of her dramatic writings, including radio scripts and a libretto for an opera based on Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

Angela Carter died aged 51 in 1992 at her home in London after developing lung cancer.

Angela Carter wrote two entries in "A Hundred Things Japanese" published in 1975 by the Japan Culture Institute.

Angela Carter wrote many of her books in the sixteen years she lived at the address, as well as tutoring the young Kazuo Ishiguro.