Reviews of the following works. Mostly photocopies and press cuttings. 1. 'Nights at the Circus'; 1984-1988. Partly French and Dutch. 2. 'Black Venus / Saints and Strangers'; 1985-1987. Partly Italian.
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...
1. Autograph fair draft with title Hermaphrodite; dated Bath, July 14, 1973. An early version of material subsequently reworked as The Passion of New Eve. Compare the file marked 'False starts' (Add MS 88899/1/84). 2. Autograph drafts and random typewritten notes and reworkings relating to Herm...
Angela Carter Papers: 'American Ghosts and Old-World Wonders' 1
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Stories as follows: 1. Draft contents list and annotated file covers, autograph; n.d. 2. 'Lizzie's Tiger'. A version of this story was first published in Cosmopolitan (September 1991). Compare the Axe Murder story in 'Black Venus' above. Typewritten draft, untitled and heavily annotated, formi...
Angela Carter Papers: 'American Ghosts and Old-World Wonders' 2
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Stories as follows: 1. 'Ghost Ships'. Typewritten draft, heavily annotated; n.d. 2. 'In Pantoland'. First published in The Guardian (24 December 1991). Typewritten draft, heavily annotated; n.d. Word-processed draft, heavily annotated; n.d. 3. 'Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost'. Published in ...
'Orlando'. Libretto for opera. 1. Autograph notes in spiral-bound notebook; n.d. 2. Typewritten libretto, mostly fair copy but heavily annotated in parts, the Prologue partly autograph; circa 1980.