Wise Children

  daughters, never mothers and daughters.

  ELLEN TERRY

  Published by Vintage 2006

  Copyright © Angela Carter 1991

  Introduction copyright © Ali Smith 2006

  First published by Chatto & Windus Ltd 1991

  First published by Vintage in 1992

  Extracts from ‘It’s only a Paper Moon’ by Arlen/Harburg/Rose, ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’ by Cole Porter and ‘The Way You Look Tonight’ by Kern/Fields, copyright © Warner Chappell Music Ltd, are reproduced by permission of Warner Chappell Ltd, and Polygram Music. The lines from ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’ by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields, copyright © 1928 Mills Music Inc, USA, are reproduced by permission of Lawrence Wright Music Co. Ltd, London WC2H 0EA

  The right of Angela Carter to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

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  ISBN 9780099981107