Task two: research Angela Carter

Born: 7^th May 1940

Died: 16^th February 1992

Lived in: Eastbourne, Yorkshire, London, Bristol, Tokyo, USA, Asia, Europe, Sheffield and Australia

How is she linked to Jane Eyre?: at the time of her death she was planning to write a sequel to the book, based on the life of the step daughter Adele.

Genres: gothic, fairy tale, magical realism, romance, erotica, non-fiction, children’s stories, journalist, postmodernism, post Freudianism, bildungsroman

Times List of Best Writers Since 1945: she came 10^th

Influences:  surrealism, feminism, Marxism, de Sade, Goethe, Schubert, her mother, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Lawrence, Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Mansfield, Woolf, Dickens, Keats, Stoker, Carroll, Bataille, Irigaray, De Beauvoir, Genette, Barthes, Japanese culture and her other travels