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Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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About the Illustrator
Eileen Cooper was born in Glossop, in the Peak District, in 1953. She studied first at Goldsmiths College (1971–4) and then at the Royal College of Art (1974–7) and went on to teach at a wide range of art schools including St Martin’s, the Royal College of Art, City & Guilds in London and latterly at the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000 she was elected a Royal Academician. From 2010–17 Cooper served as Keeper of the Royal Academy, the first woman to be elected to this role since the RA began in 1768. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, and her work is held in many public and private collections such as the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Victoria & Albert Museum and Yale University, USA. Cooper was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Art and Art Education in 2016.
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Angela Carter (1940–92) read English at Bristol University and was a fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield University in 1976–8. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by The Magic Toyshop (1967, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) and The Passion of New Eve (1977), among others. Nights at the Circus won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She also published several collections of short stories, beginning with Fireworks (1974), as well as The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (1979), and two collections of journalism, Nothing Sacred (1982) and Expletives Deleted (1992). Her short story collection, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories was published by The Folio Society in 2011, and one of the stories, ’The Company of Wolves’, became an award-winning film directed by Neil Jordan.
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Sarah Waters OBE, was born in Wales. She is the author of six novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch and The Little Stranger, which have been adapted for stage, television and feature film in the UK and US, and The Paying Guests. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and she has won the Betty Trask Award; the Somerset Maugham Award; The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger. Sarah has been named Author of the Year four times: by the British Book Awards, the Booksellers' Association, Waterstones Booksellers; Stonewall's Writer of the Decade in 2015; Diva Magazine Author of the Year Award and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence in 2017, which is given in recognition of a writer's entire body of work. Sarah was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Sarah Waters lives in London.