Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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writes frequently in the Guardian. For instance, in an article on the televising of Margaret Atwood
's The Handmaid's Tale she provides a sketch of utopian and dystopian fiction by women, from Margaret Cavendish
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Ali Smith
With her background in academia and her work reviewing fiction for The Scotsman and The Guardian, AS
has produced an impressive amount of literary criticism. She has written critical introductions for reissues of work...
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Germaine Greer
In 2013 GG
sold her archives (student notes and essays, scripts for the CambridgeFootlights Society
, literary and scholarly manuscripts, diaries, a handmade book designed for her friend Gay Clifford
, and professional and...
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Alice Munro
The title of one of these stories, Carried Away, was used for a selection of her work made by Munro herself and published in 2006 with an introduction by Margaret Atwood
.
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Naomi Alderman
Not a game, but another engagement with zombies, is the horror novel The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home, written in collaboration (a chapter each alternately) with Margaret Atwood
and issued in instalments on the digital...
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Elizabeth Jolley
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invoked as an appropriate description of her own motivation, Flaubert
's dictum that writing comes from an inner wound.
Joussen, Ulla. “An Interview with Elizabeth Jolley”. Kunapipi, Vol.
15
, No. 2, 1993, pp. 37-43.
40
She said of Johnson
's Rasselas and Goethe
's Elective Affinities (both of which...
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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's volume of trenchant, funny, lyrical essays or blog posts, No Time to Spare. Thinking about What Matters, covered, as Margaret Atwood
wrote, everything from cats to the nature of belief, to the...
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Angela Carter
In mid-career AC
said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness.
Carter, Angela. “Notes from the Front Line”. On Gender and Writing, edited by Michelene Wandor, Pandora Press, 1983, pp. 69-77.
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Her two...
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Gillian Clarke
GC
has contributed poems to more than half a dozen journals, Welsh, English, and American, and most frequently to Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, and Poetry Nation Review (PNR). She has reviewed...
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Liz Lochhead
LL
went to Glendon College in Toronto, on the first Scottish Arts Council
Scottish/Canadian Writers' Exchange.
The Canadian writer who spent that year in Scotland was the novelist Graeme Gibson
, Margaret Atwood
's partner.
Smith, Ali. “Liz Lochhead: Speaking in Her Own Voice”. Liz Lochhead’s Voices, edited by Robert Crawford and Anne Varty, Edinburgh University Press, 1993, pp. 1-16.
