Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

Angela Carter was enthusiastically involved with Virago Press and collected and edited two volumes of short stories for the publisher of books by women: Wayward Girls and Wicked Women and Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales; the former is the book I wish to discuss today. I have reviewed a few short story collections in [...]

Carter Collation Post II

We are halfway through Angela Carter month and there is so much yet that I want to cover and share with you. In the meantime, here is an update of other posts that have appeared in the blogosphere in response to my Carter push: Teresa is given her first taste of Carter by reading The [...]

Claire’s Corner

Reading this post by my lovely co-host of Persephone Reading Week, I began to consider which books I would read during the upcoming 2010 event. I’ve been conflicted between those Persephones that I have been wanting to read for some time and deciding on a whim during the week (much as I did last year, [...]

Black Venus by Angela Carter

Black Venus was Angela Carter’s third collection (the fourth, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders was published posthumously in 1993), published in 1985 (it is entitled Saints and Strangers in the U.S.). I like it more than the early, experimental Fireworks (reviewed here) but less than the inventive, fairy-tale dependent, The Bloody Chamber. Black Venus [...]

Recent Acquisitions

I promised that I would share my birthday loot and here it is. First of all, a big thank you to Verity and Simon T who both sent me lovely birthday surprises in the mail; from Verity there was a copy of Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh, a children’s novel about the eponymous Royal cat (when [...]

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