Bibliograph

Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

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Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Alias Grace

Responsibility statement

Margaret Atwood

Summary

Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor. In 1843, a 16-year-old Canadian housemaid named Grace Marks was tried for the murder of her employer and his mistress. The sensationalistic trial made headlines throughout the world, and the jury delivered a guilty verdict. A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth

Target audience

adult

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