When it comes to picking an author that I can call truly inspirational, and by extension, a true favourite, only one name ever seems to come to my mind. And her name is Angela Carter.
Born in 1940 (supposedly while the Dunkirk evacuations were taking place), Angela Olive Stalker would one day grow up to become one of Britain’s most significant and prolific writers. In her unfortunately short life time, Angela would go on to write nine superb novels, four collections of short stories, a smattering of literary essays, television screenplays, a handful of poems, radio plays, pages upon pages of journalistic articles and even the script for a never realised opera. In only fifty-one years on this planet, Angela Carter was able to leave her mark upon the heavily patriarchal face of the literary world, pulling it, kicking and screaming into the modern age.