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
Anthologization Maggie Gee
Her recent chapters in books include Beyond Ending in Bill Bryson 's Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society, 2010 (whose other contributors include Margaret Atwood and David Attenborough ), Living...
death Angela Carter
On 23 February an obituary by Margaret Atwood appeared in the London Observer, and one by Carter's friend and publisher Carmen Callil in the Sunday Times.
Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House, 1994.
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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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
His last, lost expedition has informed or inspired many artistic...
Dedications Naomi Alderman
The early version had a protagonist, Christine, who survived the revision only to die in the opening pages of the final, 110,000-word version,
“Foyles”. Naomi Alderman. About the Author.
leaving a daughter who is one of four central figures. Alderman dedicated...
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
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.
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Atwood, Margaret. “To the light house”. The Guardian, 26 Aug. 2003, p. 28.
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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
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Carol Shields
She maintains that the emergence of a Canadian Literature narrative has slightly distorted perceptions of SM (whose literary accomplishment she rates only very moderately), but that study of Moodie's four novels can shed light on...
Intertextuality and Influence Rosalind Coward
With essays under such titles as Ideal Homes, Kissing, Naughty but Nice: Food Pornography, and Men's Bodies, Female Desire interrogates the matter-of-fact details and events of everyday life, revealing the complex...
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...
Leisure and Society Naomi Alderman
In spring 2011 NA took a course in running which provided the inspiration for the smartphone game Zombies, Run!
Chatfield, Tom. “Escape the marauding zombies . . . and burn calories at the same time”. theguardian.com, 25 Mar. 2012.
With Margaret Atwood , her mentor on the Rolex scheme for partnering younger artists with distinguished...
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, 1977.
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and has been translated into every major language, including some...
Literary responses Marina Warner
Many enthusiastic reviews followed the book's publication. Margaret Atwood , in the Los Angeles Times Book Review found it crammed full of goodies . . . and profusely illustrated, as well as simply essential reading...
Literary responses Naomi Alderman
Reviewer Sarah Ditum concluded: The slide from tweaked normality to plausible horror is realised here as perfectly as in the best of John Wyndham or Margaret Atwood in a version of the future [that] detonates...

Timeline

December 1953: Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy,...

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December 1953

Hugh Hefner launched his magazine Playboy, published in Chicago. The first issue featured a previously unpublished nude photo of Marilyn Monroe .
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

May 1978: Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern...

Women writers item

May 1978

Virago Press issued its first Virago Modern Classics, a historically important series most though not all of which were novels.
Callil, Carmen. “The stories of our lives”. Guardian Unlimited, 26 Apr. 2008.

January 1996: Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint...

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January 1996

Virago Press resumed operations as an imprint of another larger company, Little Brown . Its board took the decision to sell in 1995, two years after its twentieth birthday.
“The History of Virago”. Virago, 2012.

10 October 2006: Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for...

Writing climate item

10 October 2006

Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel The Inheritance of Loss.
“The Man Booker Prize: Prize Archive 2006”. The Man Booker Prize.
McConville, Brigid. “Born to write”. Mslexia, No. 32, Jan. 2007, pp. 9-12.
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“Tears, tiffs and triumphs”. Guardian Unlimited, 6 Sept. 2008.

26 September 2009: The Guardian newspaper carried a number of...

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26 September 2009

The Guardian newspaper carried a number of poems and short prose pieces commissioned in support of the 10:10 initiative to reduce carbon emissions.
“10:10 Review climate change special”. The Guardian, 26 Sept. 2009.

Texts

Atwood, Margaret. “’Little Chappies With Breasts’”. New York Times Book Review, p. 11.
Atwood, Margaret. “A Nobel for our times”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16.
Atwood, Margaret. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works. Editors Chung, Kathy and Sherrill Grace, Juvenilia Press, 1997.
Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace. McClelland and Stewart, 1996.
Atwood, Margaret. “Am I a Bad Feminist?”. The Globe and Mail, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/am-i-a-bad-feminist/article37591823/.
Atwood, Margaret, and Johnnie Christmas. Angel Catbird. Dark Horse Books, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. Bluebeard’s Egg. McClelland and Stewart, 1983.
Atwood, Margaret. Bodily Harm. McClelland and Stewart, 1981.
Atwood, Margaret. Bottle. Hay Festival Press, 2004, http://PS 8551 T97 B75 2004 Special Collections.
Atwood, Margaret. Cat’s Eye. McClelland and Stewart, 1988.
Atwood, Margaret. Dancing Girls and Other Stories. McClelland and Stewart, 1977.
Atwood, Margaret. Double Persephone. Toronto, ON, 1961.
Guppy, Shusha et al. “Edna OBrien”. Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton and George Plimpton, Viking, 1989, pp. 337-59.
McMaster, Juliet, and Margaret Atwood. “Foreword”. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works, edited by Kathy Chung et al., Juvenilia Press, 1997, p. vi.
Atwood, Margaret, and Christian Ward. “Freeforall”. The Guardian, pp. 59-63.
Atwood, Margaret. Good Bones. Coach House Press, 1992.
Atwood, Margaret. “Guardian book club”. The Guardian, p. Review 7.
Atwood, Margaret. Hag-Seed. Knopf Canada, 2016.
Atwood, Margaret. “Here comes a chopper . . ”. The Guardian, p. Review 6.
Atwood, Margaret. “How I fell for Twitter”. The Guardian, p. 35.
Atwood, Margaret. I’m Starved for You. Byliner Fiction, 2012.
Atwood, Margaret. In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. Signal, 2011.
Atwood, Margaret. Interlunar. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Grace, Sherrill, and Margaret Atwood. “Introduction”. A Quiet Game, and Other Early Works, edited by Kathy Chung et al., Juvenilia Press, 1997, p. vii - xiv.
Carrière, Marie, and Margaret Atwood. “Introduction”. The Burgess Shale, University of Alberta Press; CLC, 2017, p. ix - xii.