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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
@jadis I read Alison's giggle. Good stuff. The description of the mechanics behind Dorothea's attraction to Will Ladislaw made me lol
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I'm glad you enjoyed it!
She should be better known, both as a sophisticated feminist thinker AND as the great British practitioner of magical realism in literature. As Terry Eagleton once wrote, "Where surreal fantasy and social satire intersect most fruitfully is in the women’s novel... This combination, which can be found in women writers as different as Muriel Spark, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, is at its most potent in the Gothic or carnivalesque imaginings of Angela Carter, one of the finest of all postwar English fiction writers."
Instead, the world was sold on a much, much ****tier representative of the genre, but what are you gonna do etc.