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.
Black-and-white photo of Margaret Atwood standing at a podium and speaking into a microphone, gesturing with her hands, 5 April 1973.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Germaine Greer
A number of reviewers took this book to be misogynistic because of its unsparing estimate of women's failures to realising their potential. Other commentators (fellow-writer Margaret Atwood , for instance) have cited it with respect...
Textual Features Germaine Greer
The selection of poets is highly informed. It reaches back in time before GG 's anthology Kissing the Rod, to Anne Askew and Isabella Whitney , and forward to Carol Ann Duffy and Margaret Atwood
Textual Production 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...
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.
and likened it to a handmade quilt, as an intricate, carefully worked celebration of...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jolley
EJ 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.
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, No. 2, pp. 37-43.
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She said of Johnson 's Rasselas and Goethe 's Elective Affinities (both of which...
Textual Production Ursula K. Le Guin
UKLG '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...
Travel 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, pp. 1-16.
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Textual Features Liz Lochhead
In considering the question of why Mary Shelley created monsters, LL says she was haunted by that phrase from Goya : The sleep of reason produces monsters. If you try to force things to be...
Literary responses Hilary Mantel
David Coward , reviewing the book for the Times Literary Supplement, commended HM 's bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style. He praised her prose, maintaining that Words are the real heroes...
Literary responses Hilary Mantel
This novel won the Hawthornden Prize the year after publication.It received generally enthusiastic reviews, although Anita Brookner evinced a degree of wariness in her comment: The novel, though expert, is unsettling. It is unsettling through...
Literary responses Hilary Mantel
Colin Burrow found this novel brilliant, perhaps perverse, offering substantial and deep pleasure to the reader, excelling particularly when the historical record is uncertain or contradictory, well able to stand comparison with the portrait of...
Literary responses Hilary Mantel
Margaret Atwood (who confessed to a weakness for HM ) wrote that the character of Cromwell matches her particular strengths and praised the exercise here of her talent for intricacy and literary invention.
Atwood, Margaret. “Here comes a chopper . . ”. The Guardian, p. Review 6.
Review 6
Author summary Susanna Moodie
SM is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote...
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
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

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Texts

Atwood, Margaret. Life Before Man. McClelland and Stewart, 1979.
Atwood, Margaret. “Margaret Atwood: <span data-tei-ns-tag="">Get back on the horse that threw you</span&gt”;. The Guardian, p. Review 2.
Atwood, Margaret. “Monument to a Dead Self”. New York Times Book Review.
Atwood, Margaret. Moral Disorder. Bloomsbury, 2006.
Atwood, Margaret. Morning in the Burned House. McClelland and Stewart, 1995.
Atwood, Margaret. Moving Targets. House of Anansi Press, 2004.
Atwood, Margaret. “My hero: George Orwell”. Guardian Weekly, p. 39.
Atwood, Margaret. Negotiating with the Dead. Anchor Books, 2003.
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake. McClelland and Stewart, 2003.
Atwood, Margaret. “Our faith is fraying in the god of money”. Financial Times.
Atwood, Margaret. “Oursonette”. The Globe and Mail, p. B8.
Atwood, Margaret. Payback. Anansi Press, 2008.
Atwood, Margaret, and Charles Pachter. Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein. Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1966.
Atwood, Margaret. Stone Mattress. Doubleday / Nan A. Talese, 2014.
Atwood, Margaret. Strange Things. Clarendon, 1995.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Atwood, Margaret. Survival. Anansi, 1972.
Atwood, Margaret. The Animals in That Country. Oxford University Press, 1968.
Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. McClelland and Stewart, 2000.
Atwood, Margaret. The Burgess Shale. University of Alberta Press; CLC, 2017.
Atwood, Margaret. The CanLit Foodbook. Totem, 1987.
Atwood, Margaret. The Circle Game. Anansi, 1966.
Atwood, Margaret. The Door: Poems. Virago, 2007.
Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. McClelland and Stewart, 1985.