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The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

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by Edmund Gordon

Oxford Univ. Mar. 2017. 544p. photos. notes. index. ISBN 9780190626846. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780190626860. LIT

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Gordon (English, King's Coll. London) has written the first full-length biography of Angela Carter (1940–92), one of the most important English novelists of the second half of the 20th century. Carter is known, in her novels and short stories (The Magic Toyshop, "The Company of Wolves," etc.) as a writer who incorporates elements of fantasy and fairy-tale imagination in her works. Though there have been previous critical studies of her fiction (and some biographical essays), Gordon's book stands alone for its comprehensive examination. As Carter's official biographer, he was allowed full access to her papers and to interview many of her family, friends, and literary colleagues. While some exhaustive details (literary conferences attended, etc.) may be of interest only to Carter's many admirers rather than to general readers, this biography presents a vivid and comprehensive portrait of not only the writer but also the woman. Additionally, the description of the times in which she lived put her themes and concerns into broader perspective.

VERDICT Highly recommended for all comprehensive literature collections as well as for fans of Carter, who want to know more about how her personal biography influenced the themes of her fiction.

Reviewed by Morris Hounion, New York City Coll. of Technology, Brooklyn , Apr 01, 2017

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    • Angela Carter: Biography

    Angela Carter was born on 7th May 1940 in Eastbourne, Sussex. However, she was raised partly in South London and partly in Yorkshire, where she was evacuated to her grandmother’s home. She was the youngest child of Sophia Olive and Hugh Alexander Stalker, having one brother who was eleven years older. She experienced a challenging relationship with her mother, who was controlling, overprotective, and possessive. She left home and asserted her independence after she won a scholarship at a prep school.

    Angela Carter married her first husband, the folk singer Paul Carter when she was nineteen. Ultimately, she didn’t feel that her husband supported her writing, a factor which led to their divorce after nine years of marriage. She kept his surname following the divorce.

    Her father was a night editor at the Press Association and used his connections to help her to get a job as a reporter. She also started writing fiction and studied English Literature at the University of Bristol.

    She won the Somerset Maugham Award and used the prize money to move to Tokyo, Japan. She lived there for two years, writing a collection of short stories called Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974) and articles for New Society. It was during this time that Angela Carter took a greater interest in feminist ideology.

    She was a writer in residence at several universities. These included the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia.

    Angela Carter wrote novels, short stories, poems, and journalistic articles. Many of her works are known for their use of magic realism and their feminist narratives. Her most famous works include The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) and The Magic Toyshop (1967).

    When she was 43, she gave birth to her only child, and she died at the age of 51 after developing lung cancer. She married Mark Pearce in May 1991 to ensure he would have full legal cus

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    May this superb biography, The Invention of Angela Carter, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States.

    The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon. Oxford University Press, 504 pages, $34.95.

    By Roberta Silman

    Biography is its own peculiar art, mostly because it involves a commitment to a subject that often takes years, even decades. The biographer and his subject are thus entangled in what might properly called a marriage, and some authors, especially those trying it for the first time, can get caught between hagiography, on the one hand, or weariness or even condescension, on the other.The problem is that when you start to research a life, even that of someone you think you adore, you never really know what you will find and how you will react to it. Biography demands an even hand and a generosity of spirit that almost no other literary endeavor requires. That is why certain biographies by people like Richard Ellmann and Michael Holroyd and David McCullough and R.W.B. Lewis, to name just a few, are so admired and have achieved lasting recognition.

    With this, his first biography, Edmund Gordon joins that select group. His subject is the dramatic, often outrageous, dazzlingly original English writer, Angela Carter, and his book is properly called The Invention of Angela Carter. With the blessing of her family he has gone through an enormous trove of letters and journals and spoken with as many of her “flotilla” (a friend’s word for her circle) of friends and relations that he could. The result is a superb biography which will, I hope, spark more interest in this amazing writer, especially in the United States. For Angela (I will call her Angela because she became the closest thing to a dead friend as I read this elegant and informative book) was a highly intelligent and formidably persistent woman who left nineteen books — novels, story collections, criticism, and essays — although she died of cancer at the age o

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