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Margaret Atwood
Standard Name: Atwood, Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Nickname: Peggy Atwood
Indexed Name: M. E. Atwood
Well before the end of the twentieth century MA
had become one of Canada's leading writers in multiple genres. She now writes for a global audience who read her more than forty novels , poetry,short stories, criticism, lectures, editing of anthologies, and experiments with new, mixed, and digital genres.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Maggie Gee | Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson
's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood
and David Attenborough
), Living... |
| death | Eleanor Anne Porden | This expedition was not his fateful one: he returned to England in 1827, and on 5 November 1828 married his second wife, Jane Griffin
. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908. |
| death | Angela Carter | On 23 February an obituary by Margaret Atwood
appeared in the London Observer, and one by Carter's friend and publisher Carmen Callil
in the Sunday Times. Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House, 1994. 1, 58 |
| Dedications | Naomi Alderman | The early version had a protagonist, Christine, who survived the revision only to die in the opening pages of the final, 110,000-word version, “Foyles”. Naomi Alderman. About the Author. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Susanna Moodie | The deaths of her infant and her young son marked SM
for life, and her homesickness for England abated somewhat in the face of a new and fierce attachment to their Canadian graves. Margaret Atwood |
| Friends, Associates | Carol Shields | CS
, who had said that in the 1960s she knew no writers, became a personal friend of her fellow author Alice Munro
, who called her (according to Margaret Atwood
) just a luminous person. Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, p. 28. 28 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Shelley | The legacy of Frankenstein is immense and widely diffused. It has been successfully filmed not once but several times, as simple horror movie and as intellectualised retelling with a gruesome birth scene only marginally connected... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Edna O'Brien | EOB
has named many women writers as important to her: she includes among these Jane Austen
, Emily Dickinson
, Elizabeth Bowen
, Anna Akhmatova
, Anita Brookner
, and Margaret Atwood
, adding: Every... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Carol Shields | She maintains that the emergence of a Canadian Literature narrative has slightly distorted perceptions of SM (whose literary accomplishment she rates only very moderately), but that study of Moodie's four novels can shed light on... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Rosalind Coward | With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Susanna Moodie | Roughing It in the Bush is now considered one of the most influential and foundational works of Canadian literature. It has made a deep impression upon many Canadian writers, including Margaret Atwood
and Carol Shields |
| Leisure and Society | Naomi Alderman | In spring 2011 NA
took a course in running which provided the inspiration for the smartphone game Zombies, Run! Chatfield, Tom. “Escape the marauding zombies . . . and burn calories at the same time”. theguardian.com. |
| Literary responses | Carol Shields | The back cover of the Vintage Canada edition of 1995 quoted Margaret Atwood
calling this [o]ne of the best novels I have read . . . deft, funny, poignant, and surprising and beautifully shaped. Shields, Carol. Swann: A Mystery. Vintage Canada, 1995. back cover |
| Literary responses | Naomi Alderman | Reviewer Sarah Ditum
concluded: The slide from tweaked normality to plausible horror is realised here as perfectly as in the best of John Wyndham
or Margaret Atwood in a version of the future [that] detonates... |
| Literary responses | Susan Hill | Margaret Atwood
in the New York Times Book Review called this work less a novel than the portrait of an emotion, “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Timeline
December 1953
Hugh Hefner
launched his magazine Playboy, published in Chicago. The first issue featured a previously unpublished nude photo of Marilyn Monroe
.
May 1978
Virago Press
issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
January 1996
Virago Press
resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown
. Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.
10 October 2006
26 September 2009
The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.