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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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Author Biography

Name: Margaret Eleanor Atwood
Birth Date: 1939
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality: Canadian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, poet, cultural activist

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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
9683 words, approx. 32.3 pages
One of Canada's most public literary personalities, Margaret Atwood has made her reputation as much as by being versatile as by being controversial. As a poet she has to date produced ten volumes of verse, and since her early university days, she has pub...
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Biography of Margaret Atwood
6447 words, approx. 21.5 pages
The author of over sixty books, Margaret Atwood holds a unique position in contemporary Canadian literature. "Atwood is arguably the most recognizable writer in the country," noted John Bemrose in Maclean's. Likewise, Ann Marie Lipinski, writing in the C...
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Biography of Margaret (Eleanor) Atwood
5060 words, approx. 16.9 pages
Margaret Atwood is arguably the most prominent contemporary Canadian writer. Best known for her novels, Atwood is also admired for her accomplishments as a poet, critic, essayist, and short-story writer, and she has contributed as well to children's fict...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Alias Grace Information
291 words, approx. 1 pages
Alias Grace is a historical fiction novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The story is about the notorious 1843 murders...


News and Journals
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The Women's Review of Books
Alias Grace.
04/01/1997: 1,494 words, approx. 5 pages
Suddenly everyone seems to care about bright women in the nineteenth century, fictional heroines with seemingly limitless futures who can procure the lives they deserve only through marrying adroitly. For the most part I am thrilled that non-academics are arguing about nineteenth-century heroines, for...
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The Nation
Alias Grace. (book reviews)
12/09/1996: 1,694 words, approx. 6 pages
By Margaret Atwood. Doubleday. 470 pp. $24.95. Alias Grace is the novel Margaret Atwood has been preparing to write since she crossed the border and studied Victorian literature at Harvard in the sixties. Composed of archival documents, invented lives and verse, Alias Grace...


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 81%
Grace Mark is Guilty in "Alias Grace"
1,238 words, approx. 4 pages
The circumstances and actions of Grace Mark in Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace" shows that she was the murderer of Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear.
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Essay Grade: 81%
Innocent or Guilty?
1,099 words, approx. 4 pages
Grace Marks, the main character in Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, is undoubtedly guilty. The evidence against her is way too much to consider innocence. Feeling sympathy towards Grace seems easy, especially since she tries to make it out to seem that she is the victim, but when looking at the facts only, it is obvious that the evidence all points against her.


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Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

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