'You read at your own terms'

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter

  

Born in London on this date in 1940, Carter was a prolific novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, especially known for her feminist and magical realism works.  She also had numerous plays, screenplays and children’s works published before her death from cancer at the age of 51. 

 

      One critic said that “millions of words just flowed from her typewriter” and she still had dozens of short stories, poems and tales waiting to be published at the time of her death in 1992.  Her most recent collection of poems, Unicorn:  The Poems of Angela Carter, came out in 2015.     

Ranked by the London Times as Number 10 on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945," Carter’s best-known novel was the multiple award-winning The Bloody Chamber.  

“I haven't changed much, over the years,” she wrote shortly before her death.   “I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.”

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