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Angela Carter, a feminist writer known for her fairy tale rewrites, was mentioned in the context of her writing about the Lizzie Borden house, describing it as a maze-like space with locked doors and limited shared areas.
There's a lady named Angela Carter who wrote about the case. She actually factored into our fairy tales episode. She was the feminist writer who rewrote fairy tales.
— Episode: Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked
Episode: Selects: How Lizzie Borden Worked
Angela Carter, a feminist writer known for her fairy tale rewrites, was mentioned in the context of her writing about the Lizzie Borden house, describing it as a maze-like space with locked doors and limited shared areas.
There's a lady named Angela Carter who wrote about the case. She actually factored into our fairy tales episode. She was the feminist writer who rewrote fairy tales.
She describes it as this way, a house full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors for upstairs and downstairs. All the rooms led in and out of one another like a maze and a bad dream.
It is a house without passages. There is no part of the house that has not been marked as some inmates personal territory.
It is a house with no shared, no common spaces between one room and the next. It is a house of privacies sealed as close as if they had been sealed with wax on a legal document.