1. 'The Making of a Piece of Fiction', introduction to and notes for a project with students conducted by Angela Carter as Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield; 1976-1977. The main characters in the piece are George and Nimbus. Typewritten and photocopies, lightly annotated....
Material relating to Christina Stead. Includes research material, articles, an interview and a review by Angela Carter of The Beauties and the Furies published in The London Review of Books. Typewritten drafts, heavily annotated, notes, and related papers, partly printed and photocopies.
Material relating to Japan. Three notepads with autograph notes written in Japan entitled 'Fictions written in a certain city'. Followed by typewritten drafts of various articles and stories, heavily annotated and partly incomplete.
Material relating to Japan. Drafts and fair copies of articles and stories, typewritten, and autograph, some annotated. Including an article 'A Day in the Posthumous Life of Japan', March 1974, 'Tokyo Diary' and other dated articles.
Angela Carter Papers: Miscellaneous fairy tale material
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'Miscellaneous fairy tale material' [file title]. Notes, autograph and typewritten with stories and articles by others. Partly French. Including a draft introduction by Marina Warner and publisher's note for The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales, compiled by Angela Carter and published posthumous...
Translation by Angela Carter of Surréalisme et Sexualité, by 'Xavière Gauthier' [pseudonym of Mireille Boulaire] (Paris: Gallimard, Collection Idées, 1971). Typewritten fair copy, unannotated, with a covering letter to Marion Boyars of the publishers Calder and Boyars, and a list of corrections a...
Notes for various works, from a file marked 'trial runs, false starts, workpoints, plots, ideas' ; 1972, n.d. Autograph and typewritten drafts, heavily annotated. Including: 1. Elegy of a Freelance. See another version in Add MS 88899/1/25. 2. Manifesto for Year One / Elegy for Assassins. 3. ...