Angela Carter is neither ordinary nor timid. Hermione Lee wrote in the New Statesman that while “few women would feel inclined to treat the Marquis de Sade with affectionate familiarity. Ī few reviewers, mostly for the mainstream left-wing press, did see what The Sadeian Woman was getting at. I am Tony and of course I would like to be your slave. For the rest of Angela’s life, a proportion of her fan mail came from people whose primary interest in her doesn’t appear to have been literary: “I feel very ambivalent about this, obviously, and rather ambivalent about the book, though a very nice lady from Gay News, who interviewed me, assured me that anybody who bought it for a quick thrill would find it a long haul.” The lady from Gay News (whose name was Marsaili Cameron) may have been underestimating the stamina of thrill-seekers. “I am now about to be incarnated by the media as No. As the date approached, Angela recalled the doubts and anxieties that had dogged the writing of the book. The first of these came with the publication of The Sadeian Woman, which was scheduled in both the UK and the USA for 28 March 1979. During the time that Angela Carter taught at the University of East Anglia, her reputation underwent a series of small transformations.
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