During her lifetime, she published four volumes of stories, some of which are now almost impossible to find. Such surprises and reversals are everywhere in the stories of Angela Carter, the fine English writer who died in 1992 ''at the height of her powers,'' as her friend Salman Rushdie says in his introduction to this new collection of My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders I shrugged the drops off ''Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shiny hairs. Instead, Beauty is transformed into a tigress by his passionate kisses:
N ''The Tiger's Bride,'' Angela Carter's haunting version of ''Beauty and the Beast,'' the heroĭoes not become a handsome prince. Three collections of her work were also published posthumously: Burning Your Boats: The Complete Short Stories (1995), The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera (1996), and Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings (1997).Īngela Carter died on the 16 February 1992, at the age of 51.By Angela Carter. She edited three published anthologies, Wayward Girls and Wicked Women - a collection of short stories - in 1986, The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) and The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992). Expletives Deleted, a posthumous collection of her criticism and essays was published in 1992. Her non-fiction includes The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1977), and Nothing Sacred (1983), a collection of her journalism. Nights At The Circus (1985) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), and Wise Children, her last novel, was published in 1991.Īngela Carter also published four collections of stories, Fireworks (1974), The Bloody Chamber (1979), winner of the Cheltenham Prize, Black Venus (1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993). Heroes and Villains was published in 1969, followed by Love (1971), The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and The Passion of New Eve (1977). Her second novel, The Magic Toyshop (1967) won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and her third, Several Perceptions (1968), won a Somerset Maugham Award. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. She became Writer in Residence at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1984, then taught part time on the Writing MA at the University of East Anglia from 1984-1987.
She was was Fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield University (1976), Visiting Professor in the Writing Progam at Brown University, Rhode Island (1980-81), and taught widely in the United States. After reading English at Bristol University she spent two years living in Japan.
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