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.
Another personal narrative, but with less of the autobiographical in it than its predecessor, this book takes its structure from the succession of places passed through and people met on a recent trip to Niagara...
Literary responses
Toni Morrison
TM
won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved. Black writers and critics had protested when it did not receive a National Book Award.
Cooke, Rachel. “America is going backwards”. The Observer, p. 15.
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Samuels, Wilfred D., and Clenora Hudson-Weems. Toni Morrison. Twayne.
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She said of this novel, I am not interested in...
Reception
Alice Munro
More than her previous collection, this volume established AM
's reputation. In Britain she was hailed by Julian Symons
as interesting . . . remarkable, and (along with Margaret Atwood
) as distinctly Canadian...
Textual Production
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
.
Margaret Atwood
praised the message but faulted the scrapbook form (as did other commentators, too). Joyce Carol Oates
in the New Republic criticised the book for inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press.
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Book Review Index. Gale Research.
4 (1969-1979): 355
Pearlman, Mickey, and Abby H. P. Werlock. Tillie Olsen. Twayne.
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Literary responses
George Orwell
Animal Farm was and is extremely successful. It sold half a million copies in its first month, thanks to the American Book-of-the-Month Club
,
Meyers, Jeffrey. A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell. Littlefield, Adams.
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and has been translated into every major language, including some...
Textual Production
Harold Pinter
Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham
and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde
) who is...
Modern Poetry Association,. Poetry. http://www.poetrymagazine.org.
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.
His last, lost expedition has informed or inspired many artistic...
Literary responses
Adrienne Rich
Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in...
Literary responses
Anne Sexton
AS
accepted the label confessional poet, although many commentators made that a basis from which to denigrate her work. Erica Jong
argued that this label downplays the element of achieved skill, wrongly suggesting that...
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...
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.
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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.
back cover
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Texts
Atwood, Margaret. The Heart Goes Last. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday, 2015.
Atwood, Margaret. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Oxford University Press, 1970.
Atwood, Margaret, and Charles Pachter. The Journals of Susanna Moodie. Macfarlane, Walter, and Ross, 1997.
Atwood, Margaret, editor. The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. Oxford University Press, 1982.
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Canongate, 2005.
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad. Vintage Canada, 2006.
Atwood, Margaret. “The road to Ustopia”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 25-7.
Atwood, Margaret. The Robber Bride. McClelland and Stewart, 1993.
Atwood, Margaret. The Tent. McClelland and Stewart, 2006.
Atwood, Margaret. The Year of the Flood. McClelland and Stewart, 2009.
Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, p. 28.
Atwood, Margaret. Two-Headed Poems. Oxford University Press, 1978.
Atwood, Margaret. “Ursula K Le Guin . . . ’One of the literary greats of the 20th century’”. theguardian.com.
Atwood, Margaret. “What ’The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump”. The New York Review of Books.
Atwood, Margaret, and Naomi Alderman. “Why we’re co-writing a zombie novel”. theguardian.com.
Atwood, Margaret. Wilderness Tips. McClelland and Stewart, 1991.
