![]() ![]() Her most recent volume of poetry, The Door, was published in 2007. The Tent (mini-fictions) and Moral Disorder (short stories) both appeared in 2006. Atwood's dystopic novel, Oryx and Crake, was published in 2003. She is the author of more than thirty-five volumes of poetry, children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction and is perhaps best known for her novels, which include The Edible Woman (1970), The Handmaid's Tale (1983), The Robber Bride (1994), Alias Grace (1996), and The Blind Assassin, which won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Throughout her writing career, Margaret Atwood has received numerous awards and honourary degrees. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master's degree from Radcliffe College. Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. ![]()
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Elizabeth’s heir, James I, traded the Old Palace and its grounds for Robert Cecil’s family home. ![]() The Old Palace was the home of Elizabeth I when she was a young child. Hatfield House is the location used for the Miss Marple episode called The Secret of Chimneys: ![]() ![]() This promotional offer may be modified or terminated at any time without notice. This offer is not valid on previous purchases. Discount not applicable with returned merchandise total discount will be deducted from the value of any returned item to which the discount applied. Offer valid only while supplies last and not applicable to canceled orders due to out-of-stock merchandise. Add item to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout to receive discount. If your order contains items that are ineligible for "Free Shipping", you will be charged for those items. 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Rooting her argument that women deserve an education equal to men's on the human duty to use God's gift of reason, Wollstonecraft set traditional gender roles on their ear. Responding to other writers who praised or attacked these antimonarchical uprisings, the tone of the book is by turn confrontational, instructive, harshly critical, sarcastically funny, idealistic, and visionary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), by Mary Wollstonecraft, was published in London during the third year of the French Revolution and the fifth year of George Washington's presidency of the new United States of America. ![]() |