![]() Her best-known work is The Bloody Chamber, which has been a staple on university syllabi since publication. ![]() ![]() She wrote nine novels, five short story collections, three collections of poetry, and dozens of dramatic works, children’s books, and nonfiction pieces (including a hotly debated feminist analysis of the Marquis de Sade). Carter’s work received extensive recognition while she was alive and enjoyed continued popularity after her death. BEHIND THE PENĪngela Carter (1940–1992) was an English writer known mainly for her feminist and magical realist works. Carter leads these tales through new territory and redirects their moralities. Carter herself said that her goal with The Bloody Chamber (1979) was to “extract the latent content from the traditional stories,” and she rewrites the red capes and delicious juicy apples into exactly what they are-fears about menstruation and sexual desire. Though queer and feminist takes on fairy tales are common today, with reimaginings written by everyone from Helen Oyeyemi to Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter was one of the first to engage with these tales and tease all the subtext into text. ![]() By tales cover diverse ground, from retellings of historical events to cultural in-jokes, but some of the most popular and longest enduring are tales about behavior, especially the behavior of women. ![]()
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