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Angela Carter, beauty and the beasts, cultural values, fairy tales, Gothic tales, magical realism, Puss in Boots, sexual awakening, the female condition
Most children love fairy tales when they were young. I didn’t.
I was busy reading other types of books. By the time I learned to read, children my age were no longer reading fairy tales. So I skipped that part and went straight to Nancy Drew, Famous Five, Malory Towers, every Enid Blyton book I could find and Shakespeare.
My next stop was romance novels. It was a short stop. I went back to Shakespeare and expanded my reading list to include innovative literary writers and the more fantastic versions of fairy tales.