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Classic Appreciation: Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter — A wickedly subversive take on traditional fairy stories. Essay by Helen Simpson

Classic Appreciation: Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter — A wickedly subversive take on traditional fairy stories. Essay by Helen Simpson | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
Angela Carter. Photograph: © Mike Laye/CORBIS
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Essay-Review: 'The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography' by Edmund Gordon 

Essay-Review: 'The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography' by Edmund Gordon  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world
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Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston

Literary Witches, From Angela Carter to Zora Neale Hurston | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The following is excerpted from Literary Witches, an illustrated celebration of the radical creativity, originality, and empowerment of beloved witchy writers.
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Fantastical, Feminist Horror: An Appreciation of Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' story collection

Fantastical, Feminist Horror: An Appreciation of Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' story collection | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
The Feminist Horror Author You Need to Read Immediately Vulture Her prose is simultaneously ornate and energetic to the point of recklessness, like a cathedral on roller-skates going downhill, and as sensual as fiction can be without getting your...
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