26-496: Brendan Connell (born 1970) is an American author and translator. Though his work often falls into the horror and fantasy genres, it has also often been called unclassifiable and avant-garde. His style has been compared to that of J.K. Huysmans and Angela Carter . Some of his shorter fiction, such as that contained in his collection Metrophilias , has been referred to as prose poetry. Influences he has cited include Balzac and Ponson du Terrail . He has also written many lyrics for
52-701: A blue plaque at Carter's final home at 107, The Chase in Clapham , South London in September 2019. She wrote many of her books in the sixteen years she lived at the address, as well as tutoring the young Kazuo Ishiguro . The British Library acquired the Angela Carter Papers in 2008, a large collection of 224 files and volumes containing manuscripts, correspondence, personal diaries, photographs, and audio cassettes. Angela Carter Close in Brixton
78-641: A staff writer for The Daily Telegraph , before working as Vogue ' s features editor from 1969 until 1972. Her first book was The Dragon Empress: The Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi , Empress Dowager of China, 1835–1908 (1972), followed by the controversial Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (1976), a provocative study of Roman Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary . These were followed by Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1981) and Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of
104-482: A son, the sculptor Conrad . The couple divorced in 1980. She was married to the painter Johnny Dewe Mathews from 1981 to 1997. Her third husband is mathematician Graeme Segal . Warner has been identified as the "lady writer" of the Dire Straits song " Lady Writer " (1979), whom the singer sees on television "talking about the Virgin Mary" and who reminds him of his former lover. Warner began her career as
130-470: Is a manifestation of her materialism, that is, “her desire to bring fairy tale back down to earth in order to demonstrate how it could be used to explore the real conditions of everyday life". In The Sadeian Woman , according to the writer Marina Warner , Carter "deconstructs the arguments that underlie The Bloody Chamber . It's about desire and its destruction, the self-immolation of women, how women collude and connive with their condition of enslavement. She
156-771: Is a quondam fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , and was chair of the judges of the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Warner was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to higher education and literary scholarship. In 2015–16, she was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature in St Anne's College, Oxford , part of
182-403: Is named after her. Marina Warner Dame Marina Sarah Warner , CH , DBE , FRSL , FBA (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer , art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating to feminism and myth. She has written for many publications, including The London Review of Books ,
208-718: The New Statesman , Sunday Times , and Vogue . She has been a visiting professor, given lectures and taught on the faculties of many universities. She resigned from her position as professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex in 2014, sharply criticising moves towards "for-profit business model" universities in the UK, and is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London . In 2017, she
234-530: The British Academy 's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2000. Warner's other novels include The Leto Bundle (2001) and Indigo (1992). Her book Phantasmagoria (2006) traces the ways in which "the spirit" has been represented across different mediums, from waxworks to cinema. In December 2012, she presented a programme on BBC Radio Four about the Brothers Grimm . She was elected a Fellow of
260-698: The Humanitas Programme . In March 2017, Warner was elected as the 19th—and first female—president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), succeeding Colin Thubron in the post. On Warner's retirement from the role at the end of 2021, Bernardine Evaristo became the new president, with Warner subsequently becoming RSL President Emerita. In 2019, Warner chaired the judges of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature . She
286-492: The Royal Society of Literature in 1984. In 1994 she became only the second woman to deliver the BBC's Reith Lectures , published as Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time , in which she gave an analysis of the workings of myth in contemporary society , with emphasis on politics and entertainment. Warner received an honorary doctorate (DLitt) from the University of Oxford on 21 June 2006, and also holds honorary degrees from
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#1732773187770312-798: The Female Form (1985). Warner's novel The Lost Father was on the Booker Prize shortlist in 1988. Her non-fiction book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers won a Mythopoeic Award in 1996. The companion study of the male terror figure (from ancient myth and folklore to modern obsessions), No Go the Bogeyman: On Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock , was published in October 1998 and won
338-485: The Ideology of Pornography were published. In The Bloody Chamber , she rewrote traditional fairy tales so as to subvert their essentializing tendencies. In her 1985 interview with Helen Cagney, Carter said, “So, I suppose that what interests me is the way these fairy tales and folklore are methods of making sense of events and certain occurrences in a particular way.” Sarah Gamble, therefore, argued that Carter’s book
364-497: The Serbian band Kodagain. Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter , née Stalker ; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter , was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist , magical realism , and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story " The Company of Wolves "
390-620: The United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer-in-residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield , Brown University , the University of Adelaide , and the University of East Anglia . In 1977, Carter met Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son and whom she eventually married shortly before her death in 1992. In 1979, both The Bloody Chamber , and her feminist essay The Sadeian Woman and
416-701: The proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo , where, she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982), that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised". She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and in a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974). Evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She then explored
442-515: The time of her death, she had started work on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë 's Jane Eyre based on the later life of Jane's stepdaughter, Adèle Varens; only a synopsis survives. She wrote two entries in "A Hundred Things Japanese" published in 1975 by the Japan Culture Institute. ISBN 0-87040-364-8 It says "She has lived in Japan both from 1969 to 1971 and also during 1974" (p. 202). English Heritage unveiled
468-550: The universities of Exeter (1995), York (1997) and St Andrews (1998), and honorary doctorates from Sheffield Hallam University (1995), the University of North London (1997), the Tavistock Institute ( University of East London ; 1999), Oxford University (2002), the Royal College of Art (2004), University of Kent (2005), the University of Leicester (2006), and King's College London (2009). She
494-491: Was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. After attending Streatham and Clapham High School , in south London, she began work as a journalist on The Croydon Advertiser , following in her father's footsteps. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature. She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter, ultimately divorcing in 1972. In 1969, she used
520-717: Was actively involved in both adaptations; her screenplays were subsequently published in The Curious Room , a collection of her dramatic writings, including radio scripts and a libretto for an opera based on Virginia Woolf 's Orlando . Carter's novel Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature. Her 1991 novel Wise Children offers a surreal ride through British theatre and music hall traditions. Carter died aged 51 in 1992 at her home in London after developing lung cancer . At
546-594: Was adapted into a film of the same name . In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize . Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne , in 1940, to Sophia Olive (née Farthing; 1905–1969), a cashier at Selfridge's , and journalist Hugh Alexander Stalker (1896–1988), Carter
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#1732773187770572-460: Was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to literature. She was a professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex from 2004 until her resignation in 2014. She took up a chair in English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London , in September 2014. She
598-573: Was born in London to an English father, Esmond Warner (died 1982), and Ilia ( née Emilia Terzulli, died 2008), an Italian whom he had met during the Second World War in Bari , Apulia . Her paternal grandfather was the cricketer Sir Pelham Warner . She has one sister, Laura Gascoigne, who is an art critic. Marina was brought up initially in Cairo , where her father ran a bookshop, until it
624-741: Was elected president of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL), the first time the role has been held by a woman since the founding of the RSL in 1820. She has been a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , since 2019. In 2015, having received the prestigious Holberg Prize , Warner decided to use the award to start the Stories in Transit project, a series of workshops bringing international artists, writers and other creatives together with young migrants living in Palermo, Sicily . Marina Warner
650-565: Was much more independent-minded than the traditional feminist of her time." As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian , The Independent and New Statesman , collected in Shaking a Leg . She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank . Two of her works of fiction have been adapted for film: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1967). She
676-578: Was set on fire during attacks on foreign businesses in January 1952 , a precursor to the Egyptian revolution . The family then moved to Brussels and to Cambridge and Berkshire , England, where Marina studied at St Mary's School, Ascot . She studied French and Italian at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford . While at Oxford she was the editor of The Isis magazine (published by Robert Maxwell ). In 1971, she married William Shawcross , with whom she has
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