She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT.

In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce with whom Angela Carter had one son. She was actively involved in both film adaptations her screenplays are publiAngela Carterd in the collected dramatic writings The Curious Room together with her radio scripts a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Works as author


Works on Angela Carter

Milne Andrew (2006) The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Milne Andrew (2007) Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A Reader's Guide Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Dimovitz Scott A.

Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist known for her feminist magical realism and picaresque works. In 2008 The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".