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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Angela Carter
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(Angela Stalker, 1940–92, m. Paul Carter 1960) Writer whose talent for wild invention was blended with a love of the down-to-earth and the vulgar in a potently effective brew. Feminine sexuality was her abiding theme, dark and mysterious in the manner of Gothic fairy tales or exuberant in a tradition of circus and theatre. The screenplay for The Company of Wolves (1984) was her own, from one of her stories. Her two last books were among her best (Nights at the Circus 1984, Wise Children 1991).
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