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25 de sept. de 2017 · 28 years ago. 9:41. The author appears on Midday to talk about the 19th-century setting of her latest novel. Alias Grace, which was originally published in 1996, is based on the true story of Grace...
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Subsequently, Atwood wrote the 1974 CBC Television film The Servant Girl about Marks, also based on Susanna Moodie's account. However, in Alias Grace , Atwood says that she has changed her opinion of Marks, having read more widely and discovered that Moodie had fabricated parts of her third-hand account of the murders.
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- Margaret Atwood
- September 1996
2. IT’S BASED ON A TRUE STORY. Alias Grace tells the story of a young Irish servant named Grace Marks, who kills her employer and his mistress in 1843 Canada with the help of a male servant....
She wrote several television scripts, including “The Servant Girl” (CBC, 1974), and a history, Days of the Rebels: 1815-1840 (1977). Her short-story collection Dancing Girls (1977) attracted more positive notice, winning the Periodical Distributors of Canada Short Fiction Award.
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7 de sept. de 1996 · Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Kindle $13.91. Rate this book. Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood. 4.04. 143,947 ratings8,830 reviews. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane.
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Atwood had previously written the 1974 CBC made-for-TV film The Servant Girl, about the life of Grace Marks, the young servant who, along with James McDermott, was convicted of the crime. Atwood continued her poetry contributions by publishing Snake Woman in 1999 for the Women's Literature journal Kalliope.
También guiones para televisión, como The Servant Girl (1974) y ensayos como Days of the Rebels: 1815-1840 (1977). Se la describe como una escritora feminista , ya que el tema del género está presente en algunas de sus obras de forma destacada.
