Journals or literary commonplace books, including poems, drawings, statements of earnings, and notes relating to Angela Carter's reading and her own work. Some have dates written at the beginning and end, but two have been dated tentatively in retrospect by Angela Carter.
Poems of Angela Carter; published 1965-1966. Photocopies made from various publications by Rogers, Coleridge and White Ltd., Literary Agents, for Susannah Clapp in 2000. Includes a copy of the poem 'Unicorn' (Leeds, Location Press, 1966 but first published in Vision Magazine, Bristol).
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.
Notebooks and notepads containing multiple drafts, workpoints, outlines, etc. for various works. All autograph. Notebooks containing material for single identified works are arranged with those works above.
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. ...
1. Essay on the study of medieval and modern literature; n.d. Typewritten. 2. Angela Carter's undergraduate dissertation for the University of Bristol, 'Some Speculations on Possible Relationships between the Medieval Period and 20th Century Folk Song Poetry'; [1965]. With covering letters (199...