Choosing the Right CBSE School A Comprehensive Guide for Parents
Margaret Atwood
1. MARGARET ATWOOD LongPen The LongPen allows an author to autograph books at a distance
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5. *At seven she moved to Toronto *After her high school graduation in 1959, she studied at the University of Toronto *At the age of 19 wrote “Double Persephone” (1961). It was a privately printed book that won the E.J. Pratt medal. *She got her master’s degree at Radcliffe College, Massachusetts in 1962. *Between 1962 and 1967 she studied Victorian Literature at Harvard for her Ph.D. and taught English at the University of British Columbia.
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7. *Margaret Atwood is noted for her feminism too. *She is considered a measure of the feminist thought *Her early feminist treatise, "The Edible Woman” was published in 1969.
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13. The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you can't breathe. No , they whisper. You own nothing. You were a visitor, time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming. We never belonged to you . You never found us. It was always the other way round . The Moment