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
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...
Reception Sylvia Plath
Other recipients of this award include Denise Levertov (1960), Adrienne Rich (1963), Erica Jong (1971), and Margaret Atwood (1974).
Modern Poetry Association,. Poetry. http://www.poetrymagazine.org.
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...
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...
Literary responses Tillie Olsen
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.
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Pearlman, Mickey, and Abby H. P. Werlock. Tillie Olsen. Twayne.
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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...
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 .
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...
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
Textual Features Susanna Moodie
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 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...

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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.