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Publication date: 1985
Other details:
- Atwood began collecting ideas for her novel in 1981 and kept a clippings file of items
from newspapers and magazines. (Howells p.7)
- Atwood’s novel takes place in the near future in the new American fundamentalist
Republic of Gilead. (Howells p.6)
Author background:
- Margaret Atwood, in full Margaret Eleanor Atwood, (born November 18, 1939,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada). After completing her university studies at Victoria College