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A Guided Tour of Angela Carter's 1960s Bristol
About
Angela Carter, one of the 20th century’s most acclaimed novelists, came of age as a writer in postwar Bristol. Take a tour through Clifton and Hotwells, and revisit the places and counterculture that inspired Angela Carter’s writing.
Carter, and her first husband Paul, moved to Royal York Crescent, Clifton, in 1961, some months before the Cuban Missile Crisis, and left in the year of Woodstock,1969. From the crescents and terraces of Clifton, Carter could look out over a horizon bombed-out and derelict, but also booming with reconstruction schemes. She was fascinated by the people she met, in the ale-houses, cafes, markets and parks. Many of them were to appear as characters in the three novels known as ‘The Bristol Trilogy,’ written during Carter’s years in Bristol. In a society in flux, Carter could imagine other possibilities for a new future world. There are elements of both the utopian, for example in the hopeful ending to the 1968 novel Several Perceptions, and the dystopian, with both Shadow Dance and Love revealing the darker side of the 1960s.
Take a tour through Clifton and Hotwells, and revisit the places and counterculture that inspired Angela Carter’s writing, in a society undergoing transformation and renewal so profound, that she declared: “Truly, it felt like Year One.”
Book Tickets
Opening Times
| Self-Guided Tour (1 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024) |
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