An Angela Carter Bibliography

Biographical Information

Angela (Olive) Carter.

Born 1940, England.

Taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Died 1992
Obituary by Salman Rushdie, 3/8/1992, New York Times

Shadow Dance (1965) - first novel. London: Pan, 1965. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966 (as Honeybuzzard)
The Magic Toyshop (1967) London: Virago, 1967.
Several Perceptions (1968) New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
Heroes and Villains (1969) London: Heinemann, 1969; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969; Penguin, 1981.
Love (1971) London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971; rev. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987; New York: Penguin, 1988.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman (1972) London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1972; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974 (as The War of Dreams); Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982.
The Passion of New Eve (1977) New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977; London: Virago, 1982.
Nights at the Circus (1985) London: Chatto & Windus, 1984; New York: Viking, 1985; New York: Penguin, 1986.
Wise Children (1991) London: Chatto & Windus, 1991; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991; New York: Penguin, 1993.

"The Donkey Prince" (1970) in Jack Zipes' anthology Don't Bet on the Prince (1987)
"The Loves of Lady Purple" in Fireworks and Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974) London: Quartet, 1974; New York: Harper & Roe, 1981; New York, Penguin, 1987.
The Bloody Chamber (1979) London: Victor Gollancz, 1979; New York: Harper & Roe, 1980; New York: Penguin, 1987.
Black Venus (1985) London: Chatto & Windus, 1985; New York: Viking, 1986 (as Saints and Strangers)

Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays (1985) London: Bloodaxe Books, 1985.
"The Magic Toyshop" (1989) - wrote story
"The Company of Wolves" (1984) (based on "The Company of Wolves") - wrote & adapted story with Neil Jordan

Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) London: Virago, 1986; New York: Penguin Books, 1989.
The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990) London: Virago, 1990; New York: Pantheon, 1990 (as The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book)
The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1992) London: Virago, 1992; Winchester, Mass.: Faber & Faber, 1993 (as Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World)

The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1979) London: Virago, 1979; New York: Pantheon, 1979 (as The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography)
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings (1982) London: Virago, 1982.
Expletives Deleted (1992) London: Chatto & Windus, 1992.

"The Debutante" from La Debutante, Contes et Pieces Leonora Carrington (in Wayward Girls and Wicked Women)
"Sleeping Beauty and Other Favourite Fairy Tales" (1991) Boston: Otter, 1991.

John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1967 for The Magic Toyshop
Somerset Maugham Award in 1968 for Several Perceptions
James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1985 (joint winner) for Nights at the Circus
Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award for The Bloody Chamber

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