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Angela Carter was born in Eastbourne, England, in 1940.
* She studied English literature at the University of Bristol.
* After graduating, she worked as a journalist and a television critic.
* She published her first novel, Shadow Dance, in 1966.
* She went on to write several more novels, including The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, and The Passion of New Eve.
* She also wrote short stories, essays, and children's books.
* Carter was a feminist and a socialist, and her work often explored themes of gender, sexuality, and power.
* She died of cancer in 1992 at the age of 51.

Carter is considered one of the most important British writers of the 20th century. Her work is celebrated for its originality, its wit, and its insights into the human condition.

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.

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