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by Margaret Atwood

One-time maid Grace Marks is serving a life sentence in a nineteenth century Canadian penitentiary for her involvement in the vicious murder of her employer and his mistress. Based on a real event.

Characters: Grace Marks, Thomas Kinnear, Nancy Montgomery
Keywords: notorious women, prisoners

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The Alternate Personalities in an Author's Life and Art

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-personalities.html

Talking to a reporter about "Alias Grace," her first historical novel, Atwood cited Robertson Davies, "who said that we can't help but be contemporary, no matter when we set our books."

Author: Mel Gussow

From: The New York Times December 30, 1996

Author: Mel Gussow

From: The New York Times December 30, 1996

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Death and the Maid

http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/03/specials/atwood-alias.html

"'Alias Grace' has the physical heft and weighty authority of a 19th-century novel. In its scope, its moral seriousness, its paradoxically ponderous and engrossing narrative, the book evokes the high Victorian mode . . . of the period in which the book is set."

Contains: Review

Author: Francine Prose

From: The New York Times Book Review December 29, 1996

Author: Francine Prose

From: The New York Times Book Review December 29, 1996

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Reading Group Guide: Alias Grace

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0-385-49044-5&view=rg

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