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Author: Angela Carter [Angela Olive Stalker]

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    -WIKIPEDIA: Angela Carter
    -AUTHOR SITE: Angela Carter
    -Angela Carter Society
    -TRIBUTE SITE: Angela Carter Online
    -AUTHOR PAGE: Angela Carter (Penguin Random House)
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter British author (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter (Internet Science Fiction Database)
    -ENTRY: Angela (Olive) Carter (1940-1992) (Books & Writers)
    -WIKIPEDIA: The Bloody Chamber
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter (More Than Our Childhoods)
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter, Author of The Bloody Chamber (Larrisa Pope, March 30, 2019, Literary Ladies Guide)
    -ENTRY: Carter, Angela (Encyclopedia.com)
    -TRIBUTE SITE: The Gothic in Angela Carter
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter (The Short Story Project)
    -TRIBUTE SITE: Angela carter and the bloody chamber: A look into how Carter's re-writing of Fairy Tales also re-write's the gender stereotypes of its female heroines
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter (Women of Eastbourne)
    -ENTRY: Angela Carter (The Booker Prizes)
    -FEATURED AUTHOR: Angela Carter (NY Times Book Review)
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    -INDEX: Angela Carter (Fantasy Literature)
    -INDEX: “angela carter” (BookForum)
    -INDEX: “angela carter” (Paris Review)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (Granta)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter Radio Plays
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (London Review of Books)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (The Guardian)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (LitHub)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (London Magazine)
    -VIDEO INDEX: “angela Carter” (YouTube)
    -INDEX: Angela Carter (Literary Review)
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    OBIT: -Angela Carter obituary (Lorna Sage, 17 Feb 1992, The Guardian)
    -TRIBUTE: Angela Carter, 1940-92: A Very Good Wizard, a Very Dear Friend (SALMAN RUSHDIE, March 8, 1992, NY Times)
    -OBIT: Angela Carter, 51, British Writer Of Fantasy With Modern Morals (LYNDA RICHARDSON, 2/19/1992, NY Times)
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    -STORY: Werewolf (Angela Carter) [pdf]
    -ESSAY: Bob Dylan on Tour: or, Huck Finn reaches Puberty (Angela Carter, August 1966, The London Magazine)
    -POEM: Two Wives and a Widow: A modern version from the Middle Scots of William Dunbar (Angela Carter, March 1966, The London Magazine)
    -RADIO PLAY: The Company of Wolves (BBC)
    -RADIO PLAY: Vampirella by Angela Carter (RTÉ Radio Drama on One)
    -ESSAY: Colette (Angela Carter, 10/02/1980, LRB)
    -AUDIO: Helen Simpson reads 'The Kitchen Child' by Angela Carter (The Guardian UK Culture Podcast)
    -ESSAY: Sugar Daddy (Angela Carter, 6/01/1983, Granta)
    -POEM: The Lady and the Skull (Angela Carter, Granta)
    -STORY: Cousins (Angela Carter, Granta)
    -STORY: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Angela Carter, 10/24/88, Granta)
    -STORY: Puss-in-Boots by Angela Carter
    -STORY: The Snow Child by Angela Carter
    -STORY: The Tiger’s Bride by Anfela Carter
    -AUDIO: The Erl King (BBC Radio 4)
    -STORY: The Lady of the House of Love by Angela Carter
    -EXCERPT: Chapter One of Shaking a Leg by Angela Carter
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Noovs’ hoovs in the trough (Angela Carter, January 1985, LRB)
    -ESSAY: CHRISTMAS BOOKS; Is Santa Claus Really St. Nicholas Or Just Some Jolly, Beert Old Elf? (Angela Carter, 12/07/1986, NY Times Book Review)
    -REVIEW: of A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER by Thomas Keneally (Angela Carter, NY Times Book Review)
    -RADO PLAY: Company Of Wolves (Angela Carter Radio Plays, Radio Echoes)
    -RADIO PLAY: Vampirella (Angela Carter Radio Plays, Radio Echoes)
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    -PODCAST: 144: “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter (Why is this Good?, 15 January 2025)
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    -PROFILE: On Angela Carter (Sharlene Teo, London Magazine)
    -AUDIO INTERVIEW: Third Ear – an interview with Angela Carter: Paul Bailey introduces his interview with Angela Carter, recorded shortly before her death.
    -INTERVIEW: Angela Carter and Wilson Harris: A previously unpublished interview with Angela Carter by Kate Webb (Kate Webb, March 30, 2018, TLS)
    -INTERVIEW: Magical Mannerist: Interview with Angela Carter (John Haffenden, Literary Review)
    -INTERVIEW: Angela Carter by Rosemary Carroll: British novelist and short story writer Angela Carter talks to Rosemary Carroll about The Company of Wolves, Neil Jordan’s film adaptation of her short story. )(October 1, 1986, BOMB)
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    -ESSAY: "Metamorphoses : how Angela Carter became feminism's great mythologist" (Acocella, Joan (13 March 2017, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Your favorite writer Angela Carter was a socialist too! (Emily Temple, May 7, 2019, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Angela Carter: Far from the fairytale : The otherworldly figure conjured after her death in 1992 doesn’t do Angela Carter justice. Her biographer Edmund Gordon attempts a more accurate portrayal of a complex, sensual and highly intellectual woman (Edmund Gordon, 1 Oct 2016, The Guardian)

One of the central themes of Carter’s writing is the contingency of personal identity. She believed that our selves are neither false nor true, but merely roles we either master or are mastered by. Her characters wear their personalities like fancy dress costumes. She was explicit about viewing femininity as a “social fiction”, part of a culturally choreographed performance of selfhood. She wasn’t the first to make this observation – but she may have been the first to greet it so warmly, as a licence for boundless self-invention.

    -ESSAY: In Which Angela Carter Gives No F*cks: On the Early Reception of The Sadeian Woman and The Bloody Chamber (Edmund Gordon, March 29, 2017, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Marquis de Sade, a feminist icon? Novelist Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer: ‘The Sadeian Woman’ by Angela Carter attempts the near impossible, claiming Sade as a proto-feminist author. (Alexander Howard, 4/16/24, The Conversation)
    -ESSAY: Top 10 stories about wolves: Writers including Angela Carter, Karen Russell and Jiang Rong have looked into the eyes of an animal that roams widely through our stories and stalks our collective imagination (Erica Berry, 29 Mar 2023, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: Top 10 retold fairytales: The best retellings of these archetypal stories can restore a childlike wonder – and offer startling new reflections of the world we live in now (Idra Novey, 8 Mar 2023, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: Angela Carter’s ‘The Lady of the House of Love’ is the Vampire Story to End All Vampire Stories (Austin Gilkeson, 5/24/21, Tor Nightfire)
    -ESSAY: No one got Angela Carter like Corinna Sargood: The illustrator’s vivid depictions of her annual visits to Mexico reveal why she was the author’s kindred spirit (Susannah Clapp, 20 Jun 2021, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: Angela Carter's exploration of life in a female body taught me to be comfortable in my own: I was 15 and in the bottom set for most subjects at school. The Magic Toyshop changed everything (Evie Wyld, 8 Jun 2020, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: 10 Transgressive Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups: If Only Disney Would Remake These (Emily Temple, March 21, 2017, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Eileen Myles, the Books in My Life: From Little Women to Angela Carter: The Author of Afterglow Shares a Few Thoughts on Favorite Writers (Eileen Myles, September 13, 2017, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston: Celebrating the Radical Creativity of Five Beloved Writers (Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan, October 31, 2017, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Peek inside a new illustrated edition of Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus. (Emily Temple, March 2, 2021, litHub)
    -ESSAY: Angela Carter remembered: Kate Webb pays tribute to Angela Carter, and to the cinema that inspired her life and writing (Kate Webb, 03 May 2010, Telegraph)
    -AUDIO: Writing in Three Dimensions: Angela Carter's Love Affair with Radio: Angela Carter wrote five innovative radio plays. On the 20th anniversary of her death, friends, colleagues and admirers talk about why she found the medium so exciting. (BBC Radio 4, 2/16/12)
    -ESSAY: Angela's influence: what we owe to Carter: Angela Carter died 25 years ago, but her legacy lives on – from Fifty Shades to Buffy, from Björk to The Hunger Games (John Dugdale, 16 Feb 2017, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: The 50 greatest British writers since 1945: What better way to start the year than with an argument? The Times has decided to present you with a ranking of whom they consider the best postwar British writers, and are awaiting your responses (The Times uk, 1/05/08)
    -ESSAY: Lessons from Angela Carter (Anne Enright, 2/17/11, LRB)
    -EXCERPT: Angela Carter in Japan: An extract from Edmund Gordon’s new biography (Edmund Gordon, 10/07/16, TLS)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Angela Carter’s monsters: Kate Webb on Memories of Carter – combative, indignant, sui generis (Kate Webb, 7/08/16, TLS)
    -ESSAY: The fairy tale queen: Angela Carter (Joanna Norledge, 22 February 2016. British Library: English and Drama blog)
    -ESSAY: 10 of the Best Angela Carter Stories Everyone Should Read (Dr Oliver Tearle,June 2022, Interesting Literature)
    -INTERVIEW: Finding Angela Carter: An Interview with Biographer Edmund Gordon (Center for Fiction)

I think that Angela Carter’s relationship with her mother was in many ways the most important of her life. Her mother was socially very conservative (she loathed swearing, and would change the television channel if an actor or presenter had been divorced), and almost pathologically overprotective (she wouldn’t allow Angela to go to the bathroom unaccompanied until she was in her teens). So Angela felt that she had to reject her mother’s values absolutely in order to gain a measure of independence from her. The personality that emerges so powerfully in Carter’s writing—bawdy, funny, frequently outrageous—was formed in direct opposition to the sort of nice, polite young lady her mother wanted her to be.

Werewolf (1979) - Angela Carter (5/07/1940-2/16/1992) (Grade:A)