Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
Its about desire and its destruction, the self-immolation of
women, how women collude and connive with their condition of enslavement. She was much more
independent-minded than the traditonal feminist of her time. " [2]
As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The
Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg. She adapted a number of her short
stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of
her fictions have been adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The
Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are
published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a
libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The
Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and
other works