Angela Carter

There was an online article a while back saying 'Virginia Woolf's status is stopping people studying other women writers'. I wasn't that sympathetic, as I love Woolf and as it's clearly not right to blame one woman writer for the people people aren't reading others.

But if you give even a bit of credence to that model of thinking, you might say something similar about Carter -- that her high status, certainly in the academy, maybe elsewhere too, may have occluded a lot of other writing, some of which was better.

But, again, I wouldn't want to fall into a false counter-feminist argument of pitting one woman writer against another (which the Brookner moment on the programme did).