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Such a pleasure to listen to Norman Bowler speak about his life and career, including his friendship with Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and his work on Softly Softly filmed in Bristol. Wonderful surprise to hear that he also knew Paul Carter well, Angela's first husband. https://t.co/SiNl7CnXnF

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So excited to receive a copy of the long-awaited Angela Carter and Folk Music by the multi-talented @pollypaulusma and published by @BloomsburyBooks Can't wait to get stuck into this! The perfect accompaniment to Polly's wonderful album. https://t.co/C5U8xGjea1

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"Reading is just as creative an activity as writing and most intellectual development depends upon a new reading of old texts." Angela Carter's line is one of the epigraphs for Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale by Elizabeth Wanning Harries https://t.co/zAGinXkSh3

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“[A]nother wedding present [was] an early Flemish primitive Saint Cecilia at her celestial organ. In the prim charm of this saint, with her plump, sallow cheeks and crinkled brown hair, I saw myself as I could have wished to be” (Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber). https://t.co/WbZao3zWXT

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Sarah Gamble provides the second keynote address for Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? @ChiCentreFFSF #ChiCarter https://t.co/soPPLjoDcr

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#OTD in 1916, Lithuanian-born Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in NYC for distributing information on birth control. Angela Carter included an extract from Goldman's essay The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906) in her book The Sadeian Woman (1979). https://t.co/htJoH4hBxG

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"'Twas the night before Christmas. Silent night, holy night. The snow lay deep and crisp and even. Etc. etc. etc.; let these familiar words conjure up the traditional anticipatory magic of Christmas Eve, and then - forget it" (Angela Carter, The Ghost Ships: A Christmas Story). https://t.co/IwJLOYNUxa

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"...which transports the story into a violent feminist revenge story. The title is a simple pun, referring both to the room to which its heroine must not venture, and her pussy, bleeding after being fucked roughly by her new husband." Alison Rumfitt, Tell Me I'm Worthless (2021)

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"Maypole, phallus, lingham - ha! Up! heave ho and up he rises! up tomorrow on all the village greens of merrie England will spring the sacred phalloi of this blessed season..." Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) https://t.co/Zur0yJ0o8o

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Claire Wrobel opens the first panel - Nomadic Journeys to the Past - at the Nomadic Texts and Subjectivities conference on Angela Carter at @UnivAngers, speaking about Jeremy Bentham's panopticon, Foucault, Jenny Fagan and Carter's Nights at the Circus. #NomadicCarter https://t.co/X02koQqHi8